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Subject:RE: Editing a PDF From:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:36:33 -0500
I haven't tried it personally, but the PDF to Word Converter at http://www.pdf-file.com/ has a free trial download. That way, you could
replace our CC (Collective Curmudgeonliness) with RLE (Real Life
Experience).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McLauchlan, Kevin
> Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 11:28 AM
> To: David Neeley; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Editing a PDF
>
> ... In a later post, Dan G. mentions a product or two. My
> outdated(?) experience was that if the PDF's text was in
> properly-flowing chunks as seen/selectable in Acrobat, there
> was no problem.
> The problems arose when the text was in artfully-placed
> clumps and bunches that the PDF-creation insisted on grouping
> with extreme arbitrariness...
>
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