Bookmarks in Acrobat from Word 2000 (WAS Acrobat mailing list)

[Samuel Wright]

Dick,

Cheers for this.

> > I'm having two issues, one is indentation. Often my second (and
> > subsequent) chapters are indented within my first chapter. (I'm
> > generating bookmarks from H1,2,3)
> The bookmarks are indented in the Acrobat bookmark pane? Just select the
> indented bookmarks and drag them out.

Granted that is an option. But we are talking some 30 manuals of
varying lengths.

> If the document pages look as you expect them to and the only problem is
> with the bookmarks, I say fix the bookmarks and go on with your day. If
> you really want to know why this is happening, you'll have to dig into
> the Word file (initially) to look at how the headings are coded and then
> look at the AuthorIT file to see what artifacts are causing the problem.
> But if it's only a few documents I wouldn't dig that deep myself.

I'll look into that longer term.

Ideally I'd like not to have to think about the bookmarks at all, just
generate them automatically when publishing to pdf.

Am I better off looking at an external plugin for this? Any
reccomendations, or things to avoid?

Cheers
Sam