Embedded documents in word document

[Anthony5E25]

I have Acrobat Pro and need to convert a word document with embedded PDF's.

Once converted using the Adobe utility in Word, the embedded doc icion is converted to an image in Acrobat.

I have attched documents to the pdf but can't find a way to create a link in the pdf to these attachments.

Would prefer to have the embedded docs convert, but happy to have a resolution for either method

[Dov Isaacs · Accepted solution]

You may not like this answer but …

There is no way that Microsoft provides for creating PDF from Word documents with embedded files (such as PDF files) where either (1) the contents of the Word-embedded PDF file appear in the PDF file itself or (2) a link is provided to such an embedded PDF file.

The same problem occurs regardless of whether you use Microsoft's built-in “save as PDF” or Acrobat's PDFMaker. Both of these rely on an EMF stream produced by Word with all the document's contents. Such embedded files are not provided in that EMF stream, only the icon. Likewise, if you try printing to PDF via AdobePDF, that embedded PDF file is likewise ignored.

Sorry, unless Microsoft augments their external interfaces, there isn't anything that Adobe can do to assist here.

[Anthony5E25]

Thanks for the response. Is there a way to add a link / bookmark to a document that is attached to the PDF?

I want to be able to have the required document opened at the appropriate location in the PDF.

I have 24 attached files that should be read at specific points in the 50 page file

[Dov Isaacs]

You would need to put explicit hyperlinks in your Word file for that purpose.

[Anthony5E25]

The links in Word point to the original file location, not the file attached in the PDF.

The main file is to be distributed to sites that do not have access to the original file location, hence the embedding or attaching of the data files.

[Dov Isaacs]

OK!

The problem is that there is no automatic way via either Microsoft's save as PDF or Adobe Acrobat's save as Adobe PDF (PDFMaker) to accomplish what you want by embedding such additional files inside the original Word document.

What you could do is to create the base PDF file and within Acrobat Pro DC embed the PDF (or any other non-executable file type) files via the File annotation feature which embeds the designated file within the parent PDF file and places a clickable annotation wherever you initiate the annotation placement from.

It is a bit of work, but the results are what you want!

[Anthony5E25]

Tremendous!!! It worked quite well and is relatively easy to complete.

Thanks for your help 🙂