Bookmarks will automatically get built if converting from Word to pdf using
Acrobat.  The Headers in Word become bookmarks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Chivers [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 12:10 PM
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Subject: Re: Fortran 2000 is out for CD ballot


On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:20:42 +0100 Lawrie Schonfelder
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> I have labourously spent several days adding pdf bookmarks to the released
> version of the draft CD. This makes it much easier to navigate for reading
> the document online. For reasons that I do not fully understand the
> technology used to produce the pdf does not automatically generate "live"
> contents pages nor related bookmarks. Since I have a copy of acrobat as
well

the simplest way to obtain a pdf version of a document is to
generate a postscript version of the file and then use acrobat
distiller to convert the postscript to pdf.

this has the advantage that you can use whatever document
production software you want, e.g. tex, latex, microsoft word, excel,
matlab, spss etc. downside is generally no navigation via bookmarks.

some document production software is more tightly integrated into what
acrobat has to offer and using standard features (multiple chapters,
tables of contents, indices) will generate the bookmarks automatically.

i use corel ventura publisher and this is acrobat aware. it has been
for several years and i use multi chapter mode and table of contents
to organise the material and create the book marks automatically.

i have program language teaching material at kings that shows this.
the c++ notes are at

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/support/cit//fortran/cpp/cpp.pdf

when jane slsightholme and i made the fortran 77 book available acrobat
didn't exist. i am going to see if i have the fortran 77 source around
somewhere and if i have i'll regenerate the book with bookmarks.

cheers

> as the reader I have added the bookmarks by hand. I have produced
bookmarks
> down to level 3 (4.3.5) of the headings, except I have not added marks for
> any of the intrinsic function specs. There were just too many of them.
>
> In case some of you might be interested in having a copyof this .pdf
version
> of the draft CD with bookmarks, I have put it on my website
>
> http://www.pcweb.liv.ac.uk/jls/007_CD_bmk.pdf
>
> Given that producing this manually took best part of eight hours of
tedious
> manual work in acrobat I would hope some mechanism for automating the
process
> could be found in future. Anyway for the time being I hope this version
might
> be useful to some of you.
> --
> Lawrie Schonfelder
> Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Liverpool
> Home: 1 Marine Park, West Kirby, Wirral, UK  CH48 5HN
> Phone: +44(151)625 6986

--

Ian

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