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Subject:Re: RE: Word to PDF conversion tool From:James Monaghan <jpmonaghan -at- sympatico -dot- ca> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:54:53 -0500
sorry but Adobe Acrobat doesn't do what I'm looking for. Acrobat ships with
Distiller and PDFMaker
PDFMaker is the only way I know (from within the
Acrobat suite) to convert Word styles to PDF Bookmarks. PDFMaker doesn't allow for batch processing of documents, ie. you have to manually open it each time you want a PDF.
Distiller doesn't do the Bookmark conversion from Word.
Basically need to find and purchase a tool to:
1. Convert Word styles to PDF Bookmarks, preserve hyperlinks
2. At least can be run as command line and taking a file path of input file.
Ideally it can support Active X...so we can batch process multiple word files.
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> From: "Bill Swallow" <wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com>
> Date: 2004/02/20 Fri PM 04:28:49 EST
> To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
> Subject: RE: Word to PDF conversion tool
>
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> Adobe Acrobat
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> Bill Swallow
> wswallow "at" nycap "dot" rr "dot" com
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> ::: -----Original Message-----
> ::: I am looking for a tool that will convert Word document to
> ::: PDF. An essential requirment is to convert Word styles to
> ::: PDF bookmarks. The company I am at also needs to convert a
> ::: large number of documents to PDF, likely on a daily basis.
> ::: Therefore, we need to batch process this conversion, using
> ::: command line.
> :::
> ::: I am assuming this has been done before, so if anyone knows
> ::: of, or uses a tool for this, then any info would be appreciated.
