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RE: PDF to RTF extraction (experience with Iceni's Gemini)
Subject:RE: PDF to RTF extraction (experience with Iceni's Gemini) From:"Brierley, Sean" <Sean -at- Quodata -dot- Com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:31:07 -0500
FWIW, I have found working with PDFs is a GIGO thing . . . if you have
embedded PostScript fonts, then your chances of getting decent output are
better than if you used a Bizzillion un-embedded TrueType fonts (from one of
those 6,000 fonts for free offers).
However, extracting usable, formattable information from a PDF should really
be a last resort . . . workflows that include saving original application
documents and other life-savers, like importing graphics by reference or
linking, should be your first line of defense.
Cheers,
Sean<br>
sean -at- quodata -dot- com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michele Marques [SMTP:marquesm -at- autros -dot- com]
>
> sara -at- e-sim -dot- co -dot- il writes about favourable experience's with this plugin. I
> was thinking that it might make sense for me instead of FrameMaker to RTF
> conversion (yes, I am also linking into direct FM/MIF to RTF conversions).
>
> I tried the demo, and found that all my text in Arial Bold (which are the
> settings for a common character style) were appearing in Wingding Bold!
> When
> I changed that text to Arial, I they were correct. I don't know if that
> was
> a "feature" of the demo (to make results unusable until the product is
> purchased) or if that is a weird bug.
IPCC 01, the IEEE International Professional Communication Conference,
October 24-27, 2001 at historic La Fonda in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN UNTIL MARCH 15. http://ieeepcs.org/2001/
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