I have found that RTF is a much more robust and dependable format than Word .docx format. No surprise there.
We always used Tags in PDF, so we have a relatively seamless exchange in formats. > On Apr 18, 2018, at 12:57, Böðvar Björgvinsson <bod...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Mike, > Thanks. Good to know! :-) > > Bodvar > > > > > >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 4:46 PM, Mike Wickham <i...@mikewickham.com> 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 <i...@mikewickham.com> >>> 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 framers@lists.frameusers.com >> 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 listad...@frameusers.com >> > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com > 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 listad...@frameusers.com _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com 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 listad...@frameusers.com