Keeping hyperlinks with distiller

Geert Snyders

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Mar 7, 2003, 7:44:00 AM3/7/03

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I'm using distiller to convert word docs to pdf-files. How can I keep the hyperlinks in Word also in the resulting pdf?
Thanks,
Geert

Geert Snyders

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Mar 7, 2003, 7:45:47 AM3/7/03

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Suzanne Cole

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Mar 7, 2003, 4:59:12 PM3/7/03

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Use the Create Adobe PDF tool in the Word toolbar. This runs the macro set PDFMaker which is the only way to automatically generate links in Acrobat.

WS Chao

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Mar 7, 2003, 11:21:12 PM3/7/03

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When using PDFMaker to convert, make sure that "Convert Internet Links" is selected.

Geert Snyders

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Mar 10, 2003, 2:43:08 AM3/10/03

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Thanks, but I use distiller because that was the only way I found it possible to automate doc to pdf conversion in a VB-com object.
Regards,
Geert

WS Chao

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Mar 10, 2003, 7:19:30 PM3/10/03

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Sorry, it's "AdobePDFMakerX" not "AdobePADMakerX".

WS Chao

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Mar 10, 2003, 7:16:17 PM3/10/03

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Have you references AdobePADMakerX? Would property "InterLinks" of Class Options help?

Geert Snyders

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Mar 11, 2003, 3:24:54 AM3/11/03

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Thanks, do you have an example of this. I can't seem to find much on the web about this and adobe does not support this.
I currently work like this:
-In the registry I set the filelocation of where I want my resultfile
-Then I print to the pdfwriter or distiller like this:
msWord.Visible = False
DefaultPrinter = msWord.ActivePrinter
msWord.ActivePrinter = "Acrobat PDFWriter"
msWord.Documents.Open strSourceFileName
msWord.ActiveDocument.PrintOut
msWord.ActiveDocument.Close True

So I don't actually get in the pdf-file. How can I open the pdf with this pdfmakerx, change the options and close it again.

Thanks,
Regards,
Geert

Aandi Inston

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Mar 11, 2003, 4:30:16 AM3/11/03

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Geert,

You can use PDFWriter or Distiller, but not PDFMaker, in your
solutions. See the PDFWriter API and Distiller API in the Acrobat SDK.

To use Distiller, first print to file, then distill.

Aandi Inston

Egern Dreng

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Mar 11, 2003, 4:14:02 AM3/11/03

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Sorry if this isn't relevant (I'm no programmer!) but whilst surfing I found this:

<http://support.adobe.com/devsup/devsup.nsf/docs/52841.htm>

"Do not reference PDFMaker files in your Visual Basic solutions. PDFMaker is not supported by Adobe Developer Support. There is no documentation available in the Acrobat SDK regarding PDFMaker and the methods used in the files."

de Siem

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Mar 11, 2003, 7:35:42 AM3/11/03

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But both distiller and the pdfwriter, will be unable to keep the links, unless you insert pdfmarks in your original documents.
There should be documentation on pdfmarks in the acrobat help folder.

Egern Dreng

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Mar 11, 2003, 8:39:22 AM3/11/03

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I suppose you could try PDFMarks. See:

<http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/docs/createpdfapi/pdfmarkReference.pdf>

Could get very messy though.

John MacWilliams

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Mar 11, 2003, 9:07:37 AM3/11/03

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Did you get an answer? I'm having same problem. It's a big problem when you have a large document with many hyperlinks. Also - when you re-install hyperlinks in Acrobat format, many email recipients say the hyperlink doesnt work when they open the attachment in Reader.

de Siem

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Mar 11, 2003, 10:09:37 AM3/11/03

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See the previous 10 posts John....

W T Allen

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Mar 13, 2003, 4:14:03 PM3/13/03

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Yes, the answer is to either use PDFMaker or to generate your own PDFMarks according to the specs.

Dennis Ogan

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Mar 13, 2003, 4:12:21 PM3/13/03

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I'm having the same issue. Converting a PDF with hyperlinks to a PDF using Distiller. Did we find an answer?

Geert Snyders

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Mar 17, 2003, 2:20:08 AM3/17/03

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Hi, thanks for all the hints but the problem is that I have to use distiller. That was the only way that I could convert certain fonttypes. I'm now trying to use the pdfmarks but so far I wasn't able to write it in a VB classfunction.
If someone has a good example, it would be usefull.
Regards,
Geert

Egern Dreng

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Mar 17, 2003, 4:19:09 AM3/17/03

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I doubt that would be possible. PDF Marks have to be introduced into the PostScript file via Epilogue.ps and Prologue.ps. There are examples in the PDF Mark reference guide.