Re: Looking for a miracle

["Kathleen MacDowell" <kathleen -at- writefortheuser -dot- com>]

I don't know what model of Adobe you have, but in Adobe Acrobat
Professional there are several quick approaches to recovering. (I just
tried both). The first is to copy the file, then paste it into a Word
file. That included everything except the linked figures, but the
formatting was lost, i.e., the headers and footers were mixed in with
the text, although the headings did come out in bold.

The second, much better way is to export to Word. Everything came
through fine, including the figures, but I'm sure you'll want to check
everything.

Good luck--if you don't have professional, you could send me the file
and I could convert it for you....I'm working with Word 2003 and AAP
8.0.

Regards,

Kathleen

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Sean Brierley <sbrierley -at- accu-time -dot- com> wrote:
> Assuming Adobe 8.0 is Adobe Acrobat 8.0, try save as RTF.
>
> I have no idea why it would be an image, the text should be preserved
> (not much else though).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sean
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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
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> P.S.  No mail please about the hard drive crash, backing up, etc.
> That's been handled.
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