

- #Making a table of contents in adobe acrobat pdf#
- #Making a table of contents in adobe acrobat manual#
For my initial testing, the destinations were defined in Acrobat Professional (not via a PRINT field in Word. that allows you to create PDFs wouldn't work.Ħ. I can't imagine why FrameMaker or any other app. The compatibility level was set to Acrobat 8.0 (PDF 1.7). docx), using PDFMaker (provided by Acrobat Professional 8.1).
#Making a table of contents in adobe acrobat pdf#
The PDF file was created from a Word 2007. I can let you know what they all are if it gets to that.ĥ. This is the key setting, but I suppose other settings might play a role. This option is in Edit > Preferences > Internet. The Adobe Reader option to display PDF in Web browser must be set. This also means I have not tested a system with only Acrobat Professional.)Ĥ. (Just means I cannot test on my own work system - have to use a lab computer with only Adobe Reader on it. In my case, our users will have only Reader, so it's fine. Acrobat Professional cannot be on the system along with Reader. (Well, not true - the HTML file can be on local computer, not the Web server, but that doesn't really make sense.

The HTML file and the PDF file must be on a Web server the link is using a URL, not a file system location. My testing is showing that named destinations are working with the following software: Adobe Reader 8.1, Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2, Windows XP Professional (2002 SP2).
#Making a table of contents in adobe acrobat manual#
We can't use another browser because the manual is set for mass distribution in a corporate environment and changing the destinations to page number works, but it's endless amounts of data entry.Īny ideas? We were thinking maybe using an eBook reader that opens PDFs instead of IE? The new version of Adobe Reader 8 does the same thing. The links to the destinations DO NOT work in this case - it only takes you to the first page of the PDF on the topic, NOT the specific destination within the document. If however, you follow the links from the original HTML file, it uses the Adobe plugin inside IE. If you open the TOC PDF in Adobe (and not the IE plugin of Adobe) the links work correctly to the appropriate destinations. The specific topic is NOT always the first page of the corresponding PDF. It begins with an HTML file where the user chooses a topic that takes them to a PDF file that serves as a table of contents. We're talking about make a large manual that consists of many PDF files arranged in a hierarchy. This topic is moved from the Feature Request forum.
