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Subject:RE: PDF to Word From:"Farwell, Peter" <peter -dot- farwell -at- encorp -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:48:50 -0600
I just did it(save a PDF file as RTF) successfully using Acrobat 5.0. I know
that older versions of Acrobat sometimes puke when doing obscure functions.
Looks like the development team finally fixed THAT bug in 5.0
Peter Farwell
Senior Technical Writer
peter -dot- farwell -at- encorp -dot- com
970.674.5338
ENCORP, Inc.
9351 Eastman Park Drive
Windsor, Colorado 80550
Ph: 970.674.5300
Fax: 970.674.5399
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kane, Beth [mailto:Beth -dot- Kane -at- ncslearn -dot- com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 4:38 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: PDF to Word
>
>
> (Searched the archives but found nothing.)
>
> Legend has it that one can save a PDF file as RTF, and then it's editable
in
> Word. I just tried it for the first time, and I get almost nothing but
> gibberish, e.g.:
>
> ____________$_____________ ____ __*____$_)___#_ __'#_________#_
> &%______
> $&_____#_&_#______ ______%____*____$_)___%___'_&_#__________
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Beth Kane
> Tech Writer
> NCS Learn's Technical Services Org.
> www.ncslearn.com
> beth -dot- kane -at- ncslearn -dot- com
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