Johnny Mac Posted October 6, 2008 Report Share Posted October 6, 2008 Anyone know how to do this well? The inbuilt feature on Adobe Acrobat is not great, loses all the formatting etc.Or are there any freeware programs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teabags Posted October 6, 2008 Report Share Posted October 6, 2008 Hahaha. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hobo Posted October 6, 2008 Report Share Posted October 6, 2008 www: OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity SuiteYou can open the pdf in draw as it should appear and then maybe export it as a word document Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepeep Posted October 6, 2008 Report Share Posted October 6, 2008 it depends if the PDF has been protected, obviously...but you can "save as" - a rich text, then you can format accordingly, I think there is also "OCR reader" too (if it is protected)...but, you need to keep an eagle eye on the gubbins it can spit out.good luck indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teabags Posted October 7, 2008 Report Share Posted October 7, 2008 I know my post wasn't exactly too helpful, but from my experience of HAVING to create things as PDFs, and discovering I have to use no less than 3 different Adobe programs to get the most basic of editing done, I fucking despise them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepeep Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 I know my post wasn't exactly too helpful, but from my experience of HAVING to create things as PDFs, and discovering I have to use no less than 3 different Adobe programs to get the most basic of editing done, I fucking despise them.but..PDF's were originally developed as a "read only" tool anyway to basically get a document in a universal format to people compressed enough to be emailled...if any edits "need" to be made, do them in the "original" (word, pagemaker, inDesign, freehand....you name it, anything EXCEPT pdf (which is "just" an output device).so don't hate the players, hate the game - sister, girl friend thang. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 Even the full version of Acrobat (not the reader) makes a pig's ear of this in my experience. You should consider the transition from x to pdf as a one way transaction. It's no accident that Acrobat manifests itself on your computer as a fake printer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teabags Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 but..PDF's were originally developed as a "read only" tool anyway to basically get a document in a universal format to people compressed enough to be emailled...if any edits "need" to be made, do them in the "original" (word, pagemaker, inDesign, freehand....you name it, anything EXCEPT pdf (which is "just" an output device).so don't hate the players, hate the game - sister, girl friend thang.Stop pissing in my soup. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest idol_wild Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 On the flipside, how does one save a Word document as a PDF? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pastperfect Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 On the flipside, how does one save a Word document as a PDF?If you install this CutePDF.Then just go to print and instead of selecting your printer select CutePDF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJimF Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 Anyone know how to do this well? The inbuilt feature on Adobe Acrobat is not great, loses all the formatting etc.Or are there any freeware programs?try this it's not free but has a 90 day/50page demo IIRC.Had to find something for converting pdf to excel for work and of the three different ones trialled this was the best, not 100% but should do most of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hobo Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 try to find a tiff, Doc, Odt, xml or html converter or print drivertry SourceForge.net: Open Source Software or ODP - Open Directory Project Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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