Dov wrote: > PDF is a "final form" document format. It does not have > the context of the graphical objects it represents. > At best, if you produce a "tagged" PDF, a "converter" > can make some guesses as to the original document > structure in terms of sentences, paragraphs, and tables, > but not much more. The Acrobat save-as-RTF capability > as well as the third party products out there try to > make good guesses as the original formatting, but that > is about the best they can do. Very little context of > a FrameMaker or InDesign document remains in the > resultant PDF file, so any attempt to go back to those > formats is somewhat doomed. If we were to supply "converters" > back to those formats, users expectations would be set > to a level that we could not deliver to.
Well put. It's a bit like trying to deconstruct a song back into its constituent tracks. You might be able to get some approximation of it, but never anything like as good as the original. -- Regards, Marcus Carr email: mcarr at allette.com.au ___________________________________________________________________ Allette Systems (Australia) www: http://www.allette.com.au ___________________________________________________________________ "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Einstein
