How to generate "named destinations" in PDF

When generating a PDF, how can I get "named destinations" in
my PDF so I can created hyptertext links to it?
1. question:
I produce several PDFs files, which have links to chapters in
the other PDF. To directly jump to such a chapter, one can use
named destinations in the PDF. How can I tell RoboHelp to produce
them?
2. question:
If there is an answer to q1, is that also possible in this
way: I need to generate a Word document first, because I need to do
some manual adjustments. Then I generate a PDF from this Word
document. Going this way, I finally also want to have named
destinations in the PDF. Is that possible?
Any help appreciated a lot, thank you.
Kind regrads
Joerg

Hi,
You can insert dynamic barcodes into your form using LC Designer.
You should do a search here as dynamic barcodes has been covered by by Steve Walker in detail. For example:
BARCODE 128 - possibility of binding 2 data fields to the barcode
Paperforms barcodes
Using Barcode in Acroforms
However one thing to bear in mind is that dynamic barcodes will not work in Reader unless the form has been Reader enabled using LC Reader Extensions ES2, which is a server product. Option 4 in this summary:
Good luck,
Niall
Assure Dynamics

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