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I feel your pain... I have yet to figure out why Acrobat 8 sometimes creates
images of Word documents, but I have had it happen numerous times for no
apparent reason. If the save as RTF option that Sean mentioned doesn't
work, you may want to try to use the OCR Text Recognition option in the
Document menu. If you have graphics or callouts, it will probably get
extremely messy and time-consuming to fix, but could be better than nothing.
Good luck!
Connie P. Giordano
The Right Words
Communications & Information Design
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney
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Hello All -
After a hard drive crash I learned that the only remaining copy of a
manual I'm working on is in PDF. The source is in Word. I have Adobe
8.0 loaded and have done a "save as" to get the manual to open in Word
but it appears that the resulting Word file is limited to an image of
the PDF content.
Is there any way that the PDF can be converted to a straight editable
Word document?
Elizabeth
P.S. No mail please about the hard drive crash, backing up, etc.
That's been handled.
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Microsoft Office, team authoring, plus more. http://www.DocToHelp.com/TechwrlList
True single source, conditional content, PDF export, modular help.
Help & Manual is the most powerful authoring tool for technical
documentation. Boost your productivity! http://www.helpandmanual.com
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