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Subject:Re: Exporting to Word from PDF using Acrobat 6 From:Emily Berk <emily -at- armadillosoft -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 09 Oct 2003 08:46:59 -0700
Thanks for your prompt response, Dick.
It has been my experience, with documents very similar to this not very complex, pretty text-intensive, not very large PDF, that Acrobat 5 did a reasonably good job of exporting to Word.
Also, Acrobat 6 seems to be able to export nearly all the text of this same PDF to (admittedly extremely ugly) HTML.
--Emily
At 11:04 AM 10/9/03 -0400, Dick Margulis wrote:
>Emily,
>
>A PDF is not a document.
>
>_Some_ PDFs are simple enough that Acrobat can guess at the order of elements the author intended and then output a decent RTF rendition.
>
>_Some_ PDFs actually have structure information embedded (an optional feature you can turn on in the PDFMaker Word macro.
>
>_Many_ PDFs are sufficiently complex or are created in a way that Acrobat can only guess--and guess badly--what text goes where.
>
>So the answer is It depends. It is always best to work from the source document, but when you get a PDF from someone outside your organization, exporting it to Word is quite iffy, as you may have no idea how they created it in the first place (from what application, with what options enabled, etc.).
>
>Dick
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