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Specifying PDF options for eBooks
The PDF Options dialog box in PageMaker contains five tabs of options for
configuring the way your eBook publication is exported to Adobe tagged PDF.
Many of the options add functionalities that are specific to electronic publish-
ing, such as setting up document information metadata that can be used as
search criteria. The printing options don’t really apply to eBooks, because
they will most likely stay in their electronic form. The following list describes
these tabs and their options:
General: Make sure to select the Embed Tags in PDF (for Accessibility
and Reflow) check box. This is the only way to specify that your eBook
be converted to tagged PDF. To use a preconfigured Distiller job option,
select from the Job Name drop-down list. Click the Edit Job Options
button to make changes to the selected job. To find out more about
Distiller job options, see Chapter 4.
Choose one of the appropriate radio buttons in the Pages area to either
export all the pages in a Book publication, all the pages in the current
single publication, or a range or ranges of pages in the current publica-
tion. Select Same as Current Publication from the Paper Size(s) drop-down
list to send the optimized PageMaker document settings you specified for
your eBook to PDF. If you created separate document settings, choose
Apply Settings of Each Publication. Leave the Style as Acrobat and the
Check for PageMaker Printer Style Conflicts check boxes selected, which
are the default settings; these options don’t affect your eBook.
Doc. Info: Information entered in the Doc. Info tab appears as metadata in
the document properties of the tagged PDF file. For this reason, it can also
be used as search criteria. You can specify the author, title, subject, and
keywords of a document and create a note that appears on the first page
of your PDF document that might contain an introduction or instructions
for your PDF file. For more info on searching and cataloging a PDF file, see
Chapter 13.
Hyperlinks: These commands let you specify the links you want to acti-
vate in your eBook and their appearance and magnification after conver-
sion to PDF. Select all applicable link types in the Export Links area. If
you haven’t defined these types of links in the PageMaker publication,
the check box will be grayed out. Choose the Type, Highlight, Width,
Color, and Style of your hyperlinks in the Default Appearance area. Note
that most of these settings are more appropriate for PDF documents
other than eBooks. Choose Fit Page in the Magnification drop-down list
to have your linked destination page fit in the Acrobat eBook Reader
window. Note that you can add, delete, and edit hyperlinks in Acrobat 6
after you’ve converted your eBook. See the “Links” section, later in this
chapter, for details.
Articles/Bookmarks: PageMaker allows you to export text stories as PDF
articles. It automatically finds these when you use the export command,
and you can also define your own within the PageMaker story by clicking
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