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MarioBriz
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Oct 12, 2021

Table of contents links not working when save as PDF

Hi all,   On my system, TOC and Cross-reference links are working in MS Word. But, when the same document is save as PDF, these links are not clickable. Suddenly, these links have stopped working i...
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Clouded_Agaric
Brass Contributor
Nov 25, 2021

LInternet405 

 

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.

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LInternet405
Copper Contributor
Nov 26, 2021

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.

 

 

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