[Hitch]

Hi, guys:

Asking this for a client. He wrote a book in Word, beautifully done, footnotes/endnotes all done correctly with two-way linking, etc. All the links work perfectly in Word (just under 600 endnotes). However, when he exports the Word file to PDF, even using Acrobat Pro X, the target locations for the links seem to migrate.

Basically, after about the first 6th of the links, when you click the anchor link, the jump takes you to a page after where the target link actually is. Worse, this behavior snowballs..as you get deeper into the links, the target location where the jump lands is ever-further away from where it should be.

Now, we're extracting this into HTML, and making ePUB/MOBI from it, which means that our books will be fine, but the client wishes to make an ePDF himself from his source that he can sell from his own site, as it will be free. My question is: has anyone ever seen this behavior? No amount of Googling seems to help, as the word "endnotes" brings up tens of thousands of results, all about the very popular program, "endnotes." I searched here, and didn't find anything about it. The links in the Word file work; they seem to have been correctly created using Word's built-in functionality; it's not some cheap PDF conversion program, it's AA Pro X...

Anyone have any ideas for The Case of the Creeping Link Landings? It's...bizarre. Really, really bizarre. Thoughts, all?

Thanks,
Hitch