weblinks no longer Distill from MSWord to pdfs

[Robert_W._Collier@adobeforums.com]

This could be a Word issue of Acrobat Distiller, I suppose:

I used to be able to distill (print) to a .pdf document from Microsoft Word and the links that were "active" in the word window would be active in the pdf. Now, they come across blue and underlined (as if they were active) but nothing happens when you point at them in Acrobat (also, if I select from the Acrobat menu Advanced/Web Capture/View Web Links it does not recognize any of the distilled text as a link). I have also selected "Acrobat 5.0 compatible" in the distiller settings and this happens whether I select the "pdf maker" tool from word or go through the Adobe PDF printer in the Printer selection dialog. Just to be sure, I checked a copy of the same MSWord document that I had distilled 6 months ago (with an earlier versions of everything) and my current version of Acrobat sees and activates the distilled links just fine.

thanks for any direction or suggestions ... I must have a setting messed up somewhere ... it must be the deadline I'm working under :)

Bob {using Word 2004 V11.0; Acrobat 6.0.2 on Mac OSX v10.3.4}

[MikeKazlow@adobeforums.com]

Robert,

Mac Word does not have the capability to covert links in Word files to
pdf links. It is a capability that is possible on the Windows side, but
not the Mac side. MS has not put the capability to make this work on the
Mac.

Mike

[Robert_W._Collier@adobeforums.com]

Mike: Short of taking the document back over to Windows (possible,
but ugli) your message inspired/challenged me to poke around some more:

In the Acrobat Menu: Advanced/Link/Create from URLs in Document =>
this worked just fine on my Mac (and PC) and generated the correct links. I haven't played around with editing individual ones (in case they are wrong), but this seems like it works well enough.

Bob