Linking html to pdf

[martinw2]

I have created files in html similar to a website with an index linking
the various files. Does anyone know if these can be exported to a single
.pdf file with an internal index? I can't find a way to do this.

Thanks
Martin

[RoryOF]

Are you using OpenOffice or LibreOffice? Details of which, the version and your operating system would be of assistance. With either Open or LibreOffice, try /File /Export as PDF and see how far that gets you.

[martinw2]

>OpenOffice or LibreOffice?
I tried both but all exporting to pdf does is create the single .html page and the index does not link to the other files. Maybe I am trying to do something that only can be done with expensive software such as Adobe, or maybe it can't be done.

Thanks for your reply.

[RoryOF]

Have you generated a hyperlinked Table of Contents, where the heading styles are applied to the Hyperlinks to the files, so that such hyperlinks are included into the ToC? A PDF should honour a hyperlinked ToC and the hyperlinks to the files. This would be a two step affair - ctrl-click on the ToC to go to the Hyperlink then ctlr-click on it to go to the file. Alternately, you could just build a list of the hyperlinks to the files and use that as the Index or ToC when you generate the PDF.

[martinw2]

>Have you generated a hyperlinked Table of Contents,
Yes the whole thing is created in .html with an index page linking to the other files - see one cell below.
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<td height="52" width="29%" bgcolor="#FFCCFF"><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1.
<a href="readmefirst.htm" target="content"><font size="+1">Read me first</font></a></font></b></td>
<td height="52" width="39%" bgcolor="#E6E6E6">
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The whole series of documents were created in dreamweaver html editor. Just wondering if perhaps I should recreate them in open office, what do you think? Tried other html and office applications but every time i 'export' to a .pdf format it only gives me the current page and nothing else.