Word to PDF Doesn't Keep Links

[Thomas_Mc@adobeforums.com]

I bought Acrobat Standard so I could convert Word documents to PDFs with graphics and clickable links. However, the links are not clickable when the Word doc gets converted into a PDF. What can I do? Please help.

iMac G5 - 10.3.9
Adobe Acrobat Standard 7.0.8
Microsoft Word 10.1.6

Thanks
Thomas

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

Sadly, that feature doesn't work in Word (any version) for the Macintosh. You must use Word (any versions) for Windows instead to retain hyperlinks, as well as much other metadata.

There has been a lively discussion about why this is true. Apparently, until recently, Microsoft didn't publish the "hooks" for developers to do that. More recently, I've seen discussion that this is no longer true, and Adobe needs to update the PDFMaker in Word and the other Office products on the Mac to be able to do this.

[Thomas_Mc@adobeforums.com]

What??!! I bought this specifically for this feature and I made it clear when talking to the sales person at Adobe.

Is this documented somewhere by Microsoft or Adobe?

[sws@adobeforums.com]

By using the Link Tool (go to Tools > Advanced Editing > Link Tool you can make any part of a PDF link to a web page, another page of a PDF, open a file, or, creat a cusotm link. Of course, this is done after PDF creation, so its not as nice a solution as the Windows version, but it will get the job done.

[Thomas_Mc@adobeforums.com]

Thanks SWS, that may be my only option. However, I plan on calling Adobe back and giving them my not so happy thoughts.

[MikeKazlow@adobeforums.com]

There was a technote on this republished today on the Acrobat Mac RSS
feed: <http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/325287.html>

> PDFMaker for Mac OS doesn't include special features of PDFMaker for
> Windows Adobe PDFMaker is a macro that lets you create PDF files from
> Microsoft Office applications. It installs with Adobe Acrobat 4.0 and
> later for Windows and Acrobat 5.0.5 and later for Mac OS.
>
>
> PDFMaker for Windows has special features that enable you to generate
> tagged Adobe PDF files and to create PDF files that preserve
> hyperlinks and bookmarks in source documents. PDFMaker for Mac OS is
> a shortcut to the Create Adobe PDF printer; it doesn't include the
> special features of PDFMaker for Windows.
>
>
> If you would like to request that features be added to future
> versions of PDFMaker for Mac OS, then you can complete a Product
> Feature Request Form on the Adobe website at
> [url]www.adobe.com/support/feature.html[/url] .

Mike

[pjonesCET@adobeforums.com]

Duly noted and I went to the feature request link. and filled out form. I expect it to be thrown in the bit bucket as soon as its read. :-(

[Jon_Bessant@adobeforums.com]

A follow-up to sws comments - if the content of the text actually
depicts the external link then you can go Advanced/Links/Create from
URLs in Document/

Jon

[sws@adobeforums.com]

Jon, Thank you for what is almost a great solution. Do you know if that feature is available in the Standard version that Tom purchased? (I only have Pro versions currently installed.)

[Thomas_Mc@adobeforums.com]

Thanks everyone. If anyone knows of any other work arounds that'd be great. Other software or solutions on the Mac. :)

[Jon_Bessant@adobeforums.com]

Wel - if you want more and are willing to pay then try PDF-Linker from
[url]http://www.artspdf.com[/url]

Jon

[Jon_Bessant@adobeforums.com]

sws - honest answer ... don't own Standard so don't have a clue ;-)

Hope you're well?

Cheers,

J.

[sws@adobeforums.com]

All is well, thank you very much. Buried, as usual, but well. Hope all is well with you and yours.