Mike, Thanks. Good to know! :-) Bodvar
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 4:46 PM, Mike Wickham <[email protected]> wrote: > If you're going to convert to Word from PDF, you might want to used tagged > PDF for the conversion. Original PDF was not interested in the data, only > its position. PDFs purpose is page layout. The idea of PDF is to create a > document that looks exactly the same on every computer screen, with no > changes due to text flow, installed fonts, window size, etc. Consequently, > it stores data in very strange ways. Words aren't necessarily stored as > words, or paragraphs as paragraphs. The phrase "text frame" might be stored > as "te," "xtf," "r," and "ame" objects, for example, and PDF tracks which > font and where to draw these bits of text. It's weird that the text blocks > that are created by PDF, and the visible order of them, might even be > stored in a different order in the file. So trying to put these objects > back into proper order for conversion to other formats may not work well. > > Anyway, as I recall, using tagged PDF causes the PDF to actually store > paragraphs as paragraph blocks, etc. So, reconstructing the data in a > proper way for conversion from PDF to Word should be better. > > Mike Wickham > > On 4/18/2018 5:29 AM, Böðvar Björgvinsson wrote: > >> Mike, >> Not tagged. Never do that. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 12:09 AM, Mike Wickham <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Bodvar, >>> >>> It might depend on whether the PDF was saved as tagged PDF or not. >>> >>> Mike Wickham >>> >>> On 4/17/2018 12:35 PM, Böðvar Björgvinsson wrote: >>> >>> > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to [email protected] > Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com > Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/fr > amers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/li > stinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > Send administrative questions to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to [email protected] Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]
