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aleslie1-Visitor
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January 10, 2011
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Do PDF named destinations only work with Arbortext Publishing Engine ?

  • January 10, 2011
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Is it true that in order to link to a PDF named destination, you need Arbortext Publishing Engine ?
ie: If I want toset up an external link to a named destination in the target PDF this can only be achievedwhen composing to PDF via the Publishing Engine ? (and not simply via Adobe Acrobat)

Regards,

Andy

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    ptc-9539261-Visitor
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    January 10, 2011
    From the Arbortext documentation:

    Note
    Linking to a page number or named destination only works for composing directly to PDF using Arbortext Publishing Engine. Page links and named destinations are not supported for Adobe Acrobat Distiller.

    Dave Hintz
    Siemens
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    ptc-9539261-Visitor
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    January 10, 2011
    By the way, you can compose directly to PDF if you have an Arbortext Styler license.
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    AndyEsslinger1-Visitor
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    January 10, 2011
    Also by the way, the PDF output from direct PDF is different that the PDF produced by Acrobat distiller. You may or may not be able to live with the differences.

    -Andy
    [cid:image002.jpg@01CBB0B9.525DFA00]Andy Esslinger LM Aero Tech Order Data
    (817) 279-0442 1 Lockheed Blvd. MZ 4285
    (817) 777-3047 Fort Worth TX 76108
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    ptc-9533431-Visitor
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    January 10, 2011
    > Also by the way, the PDF output from direct PDF is different that the PDF
    > produced by Acrobat distiller. You may or may not be able to live with
    > the differences.
    >
    > -Andy
    > [cid:image002.jpg@01CBB0B9.525DFA00]Andy Esslinger LM Aero Tech Order
    > Data
    > (817) 279-0442 1 Lockheed Blvd. MZ 4285
    > (817) 777-3047 Fort Worth TX 76108

    Interesting, do you have some examples of differences that might cause a
    problem?

    ..dan
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    AndyEsslinger1-Visitor
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    January 10, 2011
    No,

    I tried it a couple of years ago and the page fidelity, bookmarks, hyperlinks were just different or missing. I do not remember many specifics. The title page suddenly wanted to overflow for almost every document and some of the keeps stopped working. I thought that most of the differences could have been fixed in my FOSI but I didn't see any ROI for spending the time doing so.

    -Andy

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