Creating PDF from Word and preserving hyperlinks using VB.NET

[Zlatko_Marcok@adobeforums.com]

Hello.
I have a number of MS Word files containing hyperlinks to PDF files. I need to convert my Word files to PDF and preserve the hyperlinks. Printing to the PDF printer will not preserve the links unless I use pdfmarks and that approach led to other complications that I would like to avoid. I'm able to preserve the links by running PDFMaker from the MS Word menu. I need to do the same from VB.NET with automation. I've had success using the PdfMakerApiLib but that is an unsupported and undocumented interface and seems to work only on Acrobat 7. With Acrobat 6, I cannot find the PdfMakerApiLib and I would prefer not to use unsupported APIs.

What is the correct way to accomplish this task?

Another idea is to use automation to create the PDF from Word, then create the hyperlinks in Acrobat using automation. Would that be possible?

[Leonard_Rosenthol@adobeforums.com]

There are no APIs available to VB.NET for desktop conversion of file formats to PDF. There are plugin APIs (available via C/C++ plugins to Acrobat) for conversion using Acrobat.

In addition, Adobe offers our LiveCycle ES family for server and automated conversion solutions and it has a Java and .NET API.