Any way to apply styles to Access report elements?

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I just had a long talk with Adobe about creating a PDF from an Access report.
I have Access 2003 and Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional.

When you create a PDF from a Micorsoft Word doc, the PDF Writer looks at the
Headings or Styles in the Word doc and creates bookmarks with them.

Adobe tells me that if the report in Access also had Headings or Styles
attached to the various text elements, it would turn those into bookmarks.

Is there any way to apply headings or styles to text elements in an Access
report?
 
Bill:

The Adobe PDF Wizard won't support this at all, primarily because of what
Access reports really are, i.e. image representations of the data created at
run time rather than files like a Word document.

On the other hand, our PDF and Mail Library for Access, PDF Pro Plus
Edition, provides a way you can add bookmarks from Access reports output at
run time. It takes a bit of strategically placed VBA code within the
report, calling the MarkAdd method of the MergeObjClass of the library while
the report is being output to a PDF file and subsequently calling the
MergePDFsEx Class in the library to set the bookmarks into the file, but it
can be done at run time, including nested or child bookmarks based on groups
or page numbers, just like the Headings capability within Word.

You'll find the library in the Developer Tools area of our web site. It
support Acrobat 3-7, but doesn't require Acrobat to provide this capability.
 
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