[Wylug-help] PDF to Word converter

[Nigel Metheringham]

On 31 Aug 2007, at 15:40, James Holden wrote:
> PDF is essentially a page description language, whereas Word is a
> document editor. PDF doesn't carry all of the document structure, eg:
> paragraphs, tables. It's just lines and boxes and chunks of text.
>
> Are you sure the PDF doesn't support fields? Have you tried opening it
> in the proprietary Adobe viewer? You may find that it reveals  
> clickable
> fields.

An alternative, although rather nasty, is to make the original PDF  
(or you may need to convert it to a different format for the word  
processor - Word is very bad at accepting any decent format, Ooo is  
better at this) a background image on the page, and then put your  
additions on top.  This may hit problems with the standard problem  
that no 2 versions of Word (potentially including the same version  
but on a different machine) render a document the same way.

[Do I sound bitter.... I never cease to be impressed at just how crap  
Word and the other Office products are - for example on the copy I  
have it will not allow you to put a 3 point line 12 points below each  
main heading - keeps resetting it to 1/2 pt width, and randomising  
the distance]

	Nigel.
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[ Nigel Metheringham           Nigel.Metheringham at InTechnology.co.uk ]
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