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PDF Hacks
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PDF Hacks

by Sid Steward
August 2004
Beginner content levelBeginner
298 pages
8h 9m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 4. Creating PDF and Other Editions

Introduction: Hacks #32-50

There are lots of different ways to create PDF files, from simple printing to PDF, to macros, to tools built into various applications. After putting the effort into creating your source document, choose a pathway to PDF that produces exactly what you expect. Some ways of creating PDF are simple, and some are more involved.

Tip

Some applications, including many applications from Adobe, let you save files as PDF directly. This doesn't require much hacking and so isn't covered here, but it might be worth checking to see if there's an easy path to PDF built into your application (e.g., File Save a Copy... Save as Type: PDF in Adobe Illustrator).

Hack #32. Create Interactive PDF with Your Word Processor

Interactive PDFs take advantage of the information in word processing documents to create navigation features such as bookmarks and hyperlinks.

Printing a document to create its PDF edition is common practice. It works beautifully, but it also leaves much behind. Document headings could have been turned into an outline of PDF bookmarks, and document links could have become live PDF links. Adding these features, shown in Figure 4-1, will help ensure that your readers have the best possible reading experience.

Automatically adding PDF navigation features from your document's styles

Figure 4-1. Automatically adding PDF navigation features from your document's styles

The trick to creating an interactive ...

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