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Table of contents links not working when save as PDF
I have to be able to print several different versions of this document, with different sections selected, such as "S1,S4-S10" and "S1,S11-S20" etc. So saving as PDF won't work, since I cannot selectively save sections. Only a custom print, to a PDF printer will work.
None of the TOC or intradocument links work when printing to the printer "Microsoft Print To PDF".
This is a very, very big problem for me. Any help very gratefully received.
Use Export -> Create PDF/XPS and choose the Standard (Publishing online and printing) option.
The Print to PDF approach tends to include only what is necessary for printing - not document structure information.
See how it goes.
Clouded_Agaricthanks. However I found there are a couple issues with this approach.
1. After you set "Save as type" to PDF, then an "Options" button appears on the Save As dialogue, and from there you can select a page range, start to end. However, you can't enter a selection of pages, such as using section identifiers, as in "S1,S10-S20", which you can from a print dialogue.
2. The image quality is poor. Of course I selected the option to optimize for "Standard (publishing online and printing)", however the image quality degrades significantly. This document has a lot of images designed to be zoomed in for more detail, and they are much more fuzzy. The advantage of printing to the printer "Microsoft Print To PDF" is that image quality is retained, without any degradation. That is probably also why in my tests those PDF's are much larger.
- Found some information in an old post (has been replied to more recently):
https://superuser.com/questions/645657/export-word-document-with-high-resolution-png-to-pdf
Also, check the Options when you export - Optimise image quality?
