[Gllug] convert PDF to editable format?

[Dylan]

On Monday 21 October 2002 18:51, Tethys wrote:
> Dylan writes:
> >What friendly packages will help me convert a PDF file? I can get it to
> >postscript, and I've looked at pdf2html, but ideallt I'd like an rtf
> > file...
>
> Can't be done, I'm afraid. PDF, as an extension of PostScript, is a display
> format, and hence can't be reliably converted back to an editable format.
> I believe that Adobe sell a product that will allow *some* PDFs to be
> converted back to Word, etc., but not all. Like you say, you can convert
> it to HTML, and from there, probably on to RTF, but even then, I can
> create you a PDF for which that won't work...
>
> Tet

Agh, pooh! Now, Acrobat mentions 'annotations', but although I can tell it how 
to highlight them, I cannot see a way to add or edit them - do I need to buy 
Acrobat to do that, or is there another way?

Cheers
Dylan

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