Things I’ve learned

Ongoing list of things I’ve learned that I don’t want to lose.

  • Hyperlinking to specific page in PDF on someone else’s site: use “#page=[page number]“. For instance: to link to page 66 of a PDF file use “#page=66″ at the end of the hyperlink, similar to the “#[named element] on web pages. [thanks wikipedia]
  • Extracting images from Word file: This only works with files in Word 2007, but since I have it, I use it. It seems that Word 2007 files (.docx) are actually zip files. Rename the file as a zip file. Inside the zipped folder you will find a folder called “word”. Open that and you will find the images that were embedded in the word file. [thanks MSDN Magazine]
  • More than you probably will ever need to know about PDF accessibility can be found on my PDF Accessibility site.

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  1. Hey–thanks-I just used this pdf thing to tweet the link to a specific page of a newsletter! I remembered seeing how to do it on here and came back for the instructions.

  2. Cath

    Dona, Help! How can I disengage from Whitcom! I 've been trying to unsubscribe for 9 months, to no avail. And by the way, do you know anything about copywriting stories?
    Catherine

  3. Cath

    Dona, Help! How can I disengage from Whitcom! I 've been trying to unsubscribe for 9 months, to no avail. And by the way, do you know anything about copywriting stories?
    Catherine

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