MS Word links are scrambled by Acrobat 6.0

[Bob_Furber@adobeforums.com]

I am having difficulty getting Acrobat 6.0 to transfer the links in the original MS Word 2000 document. While the Table of Content links and hyperlinks work well in the Word document, they often miss by a page or more in the .pdf document. At times, it even looks like the links have been scrambled in the .pdf doc and, become erratic.

I should mention that the Word document has numerous [hard] page breaks to improve layout and to reduce reflow. I wonder if this has a bearing on the problem?

Any help or suggestions would be most appreciated as the .pdf document is worse than worthless with erratic links.

Thanks,

Bob F.

[Ian_Burton@home_in_Paris.fr]

Maybe the problem your seeing is document reflow when you change the printer. Word has an annoying "feature" of using current printer characteristics in calculating page layout. Change the printer, or send the document to another machine and the carefully established page layour can be ruined.

When you create a PDF (from the PDF Maker button or any other means) you're effectively selecting another printer (Adobe PDF printer for Acrobat 6), Word then repaginates and prints.

Try selecting the Adobe PDF printer as the document printer for your Wrod document before creating the PDF. Now check the page layout is how you want it. ONce you've got the right layout for the Adobe PDF printer, create your PDF however you want.
Hope this helps
Cheers
Ian

[Bob_Furber@adobeforums.com]

Thanks for the suggestion, but after upgrading to Adobe 6.0.1 AND selecting the Adobe PDF printer, the problems persist. In fact, they may have got worse. Links to bookmarks do not appear to work (The pdf doc can't find them, yet they work well in Word.)

However, all the links from the TOC appear to be working fine in the pdf doc.

Help would be greatly appreciated, because a doc with bad links is useless. Also, this is becoming a new career ..one I hadn't planned on.

[Bob_Furber@adobeforums.com]

The Plot thickens.

I tried printing from Word with the Adobe PDF printer (File -> Print -> Select Adobe PDF) and none of the bookmarks appear to work in the resulting pdf document.

When I create the pdf doc by clicking on the "Convert to PDF document" icon in MSWord, some of the links in the resulting pdf document work and some do not.

The Table of Content links work fine ..from the TOC. But many of the embedded links to headings result in "Could not open the file _heading_name".

It appears that when the hyperlink to a heading is on its own (i.e., a line in a list of links) it works fine. But when the hyperlink is embedded in a paragraph, it results in "Could not open the file _heading_name".