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Topic: Re: the list thus far (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) Mac Issues, Msg: 90757
From: prodok
Date: 6/26/2003 12:47 AM

This is correct, and in this case, we can not blame Adobe alone. Fact
is that the Mac version of MS Office does not have the sufficient
program interface to get those links out.

Note that in order to get any "extra" features from an application
(and that is not only so with MS Office), that application must
provide the means to do so. In the cases where there is a
sufficiently powerful programming interface, it can be done with an
add-on to that application (such as the various PDFMaker macros on
the Windows side). If that is not the case, it is not possible to
pass that "extra" information to Distiller.

So, if I can find a way to create the according information for
Distiller from within that application, I can get it through.

One workaround would be to add very specific type styles to the link
sources (and targets), and use a production plug-in in Acrobat to
create the links there.

Another workaround would be to find a way to create some kind of a
pre-processor within Mac MS Office which would interpret the "extra"
features and create the according PDFMARK codes for Distiller. I
don't know if that is possible at all, however.

Hope, this can help.


Max Wyss
PRODOK Engineering
Low Paper workflows, Smart documents, PDF forms
CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland

Fax: +41 1 700 20 37
or +1 815 425 6566
e-mail: mailto:max@prodok.com
http://www.prodok.com



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>OK, here's another missing feature. This, from the Help document,
>appears only under the title Converting Microsoft Office Files
>(Windows):
>
>By default, Adobe PDF files created using these commands and
>buttons preserve hyperlinks, styles, and bookmarks present in the
>source file.
>
>However, this sentence does not appear under the Title Converting
>Microsoft Office file (Mac OS). No wonder none of my links make it
>through to the final PDF.
>
>This means that at the moment, someone working on the Macintosh
>platform must manually add all links to MS Word documents that do
>not spell out the links within the text itself.
>