RE: Looking for a miracle

["Sean Brierley" <sbrierley -at- Accu-Time -dot- com>]

It never should unless you select a "print as image" option which is available for some versions of Acrobat in printer properties.

Cheers,

Sean

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Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 12:06 PM
To: 'Elizabeth Sprague'; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: Looking for a miracle


Hi Elizabeth,

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
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Subject: Looking for a miracle

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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