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Subject:RE: Exporting to Word from PDF using Acrobat 6? From:"Spreadbury, David C." <David -dot- Spreadbury -at- marconi -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 9 Oct 2003 12:12:45 -0400
Give ScanSoft PDF Converter a try (http://www.scansoft.com/). The retail
price right now is $50. It works great with Acrobat 5 PDFs. I took a PDF,
obviously created in FrameMaker, that was all tables, opened it in Word with
the BETA of PDF Converter. Saved the Word version as PDF. The two pdfs were
identical.
-----Original Message-----
From: Emily Berk [mailto:emily -at- armadillosoft -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:16 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Exporting to Word from PDF using Acrobat 6?
Hi Geoff:
We do have the original(s) of this document. Going back 12 years in
PageMaker, then to HTML, then to Word, then to FrameMaker.
And, yes, we are going to use the HTML.
BUT -- this seems to me to be a regression. I was using Acrobat 5 and never
have I had such poor results. If it could at least get all the text in the
right order that would be -- acceptable.
It seems like maybe this was a strategic decision by Adobe to attempt to
lock people into Acrobat? But what it's doing is really pissing off the
SMEs and adding fuel to their arguments that we should stay in Word and
never go the FM/Acrobat route.
--Emily
At 11:47 AM 10/9/03 -0400, Hart, Geoff wrote:
>Emily Berk reported problems getting Acrobat 6 files back into Word.
Haven't
>used 6, so I can't provide specific comments, but the best solution in
>general is to request the source file from the person who generated the
PDF.
>In my experience, Acrobat (5.x) generally does a miserable job of
>extracting/exporting text; it doesn't understand columns or newspaper-style
>"continued" stories at all, it repeatedly inserts headers and footers on
>each page rather than deleting them or adding them to Word's headers and
>footers, and so on. Very frustrating.
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