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Convert .doc files to PDF and retain 'structure' info
Authored by: palahala on Jan 10, '09 03:48:21AM

A stands for Article? Please explain a bit more on how Word does this, as I cannot find it in the original post. Apart form that, I was replying to fracai. And both fracai and hamarkus seem to indicate that no structure is transferred through the "Print to PDF" function. In my understanding no structure also implies: no clickable links, except maybe for those links that the PDF reader can discover while displaying (like human readable internet links).

So: does Word on the Mac indeed create clickable table of contents, clickable indexes, clickable references to other pages, et cetera?

If so, then maybe Word has a similar preference as OpenOffice.org's "Export bookmarks as named destinations" which I described below.

As a side note: printing to PDF uses "Mac OS X 10.5.6 Quartz PDFContext". The word "Context" might suggest it gets more info than just the printout itself -- just like I experienced in Safari, and like you might have experienced in Word?



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Convert .doc files to PDF and retain 'structure' info
Authored by: frgough on Jan 12, '09 09:20:20AM

No. Word 2008 does not include clickable cross-references in the PDFs it generates (clickable TOC and index enteries are simply Word-generated cross reference fields).



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