Word To Pdf

[DYLAN]

Hi Guys, :confused:

I hope you can help.

I am creating a document in word and world like to then convert to Acrobat PDF.

My word documents contain links to websites and other documents.

If I convert to PDF my links will not work. How do I convert to PDF but still have workable links to other websites and documents when people view a PDF.

Many thanks

DYLAN CHARLES

[Rob]

Talk about timing.

google is announcing a deal with sun today - sun makes star office and open office.

I mention this because open office is a free office software that will import your word doc and export it to pdf with all the link intact.

[DYLAN]

Hi,

This sounds like a good peice of software. However I need to know how to transfer links that link to websites and other documents using PDF.

There is away you can transfer links creating in a word document into a PDF form.

Does anyone know how to do this :confused:

[Rob]

If you are using MS Word the only way I know how to do it is to buy a program like CutePDF. That is why I suggested Open Office because it does this already and it is free, all you need to do is open your MS Word doc in Open Office and save as PDF.

[DYLAN]

Hi,

I am sure there is a way you can embedd a link in word and then transfer into a pdf document, or something like this, buyt am not entiley sure.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Cheers

Gareth

[mcanerin]

I might be missing something here, but the default behavour for PDF documents is to keep the links workable - have you actually tried it?

I do it all the time. I don't press any special buttons, I don't choose any wierd menu items, I perform no dark mystical rites.

I have a Word document with links, I go File>Print, choose either Distiller or PDFWriter as the printer I want, and save the document, with links.

No confusion. No problem.

Ian

[DYLAN]

Hi,

Many thanks for your reply.

I have tried it but it does not seem to pick up links that go to other websites or documents.
The only thing that does work is genuine email addresses.

So there is no special buttons you need to click then?

I am lost here, I will try again.

Thanks

DYLAN JAMES

[rogerd]

Just about alll of the PDF converters have free trials. (They typically install as a "printer" on your PC.) I've found that while most converters will do a good job on a straightforward document, some don't handle things like complex Publisher documents very well. I've had good luck with pdfFactory faithfully rendering even complicated pages, and there's a setting for automatically converting URLs to PDF links. You can even control their appearance. Be sure to try any conversion software before you buy it, though, as most of these packages seem to have little quirks.

[rogerd]

I ran a quick test on pdfFactory, and found that it properly converted URLs to PDF links, e.g., http://www.example.com, but not hyperlinked text (e.g., Example (http://www.example.com)). That would probably explain why email addresses were parsed as links but not other linked content.

[mcanerin]

You are right - it will keep links in an HTML document, but only converts fully written links in a word document if you use PDF writer. Odd.

Thanks for being so persistent, Dylan - I'll poke around a bit and see what I can come up with.

In the mean time, the work-around seems to be to save the word document as an HTML file then print to PDF. This obviously is not the best solution.

Ian

[mcanerin]

Ok, I'm back.

The following software WILL convert/keep MS Word links during PDF conversion:

http://www.gobcl.com/
http://www.clicktoconvert.com/
https://createpdf.adobe.com/ (only if you enable "Create Tagged PDF" in the non-free version)
MS Office 12 http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/oct05/10-02OfficePDF.mspx (interview 3 days ago re: native PDF handling )

But NOT

Adobe Acrobat (any version up to 7)
Primopdf
PDFConverter

This is due to the fact that a macro has to be run in Word before printing - by the time the file gets to the "printer" the link has already been lost - it has to be pre-processed within Word itself.

Apparently, the working "link" we see when a full link is printed, isn't actually a link - the Acrobat Viewer interpretes it as a link - the link is not actually in the file. I just tested this. :(

Thank you, Dylan, for making me check my assumptions - very helpful.

In the meantime, you can either upgrade to Office 12 when it comes out, or use one of the programs I listed above.

Or add them in manually after the fact in any full version of Acrobat 5 and above (though that sucks for documents with lots of links).

I've actually never had a problem until now because I always type out the full link in PDF's because a lot of time people print them. Since those work in the Viewer, I've always assumed that was default behavior.

Cheers,

Ian

[rosalynne]

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