Hey JDB!
There's NO NEED to fork over hundreds of dollars to Adobe, unless you dig doing that kind of thing.
You can create your own PDFs for free, using a piece of software called... FREEPDF
Whatever you want to turn into a PDF, Free PDF can do it. Any file. Any time. Just like Adobe.
Does it make hyperlinks active?
I wouldn't have a clue. You can find out though, by asking him on his discussion board.
Anyway. If you want to try it out you can read more about it and get it from here http://4.36.8.8/zipguy/freepdf.htm
It uses a couple of third party apps which are also free. It takes a few minutes to set up. Even I did it first go by following the setup intructions it comes with.
Even though it takes a few minutes to set up, what's there to complain about... it's free.
Oh... just spotted this on his page... "Note that some of the advanced PDF features, including PDF hotlinks and PDF Table of Contents, are not supported."
Hope this helps.
Michael Ross.
P.S. There's also HTML Doc http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/ I believe it will create a PDF from your HTML and you can have the hyperlinks active. It's also free but support is $99, if you want it - you don't have to buy support.
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