On Sep 10, 6:34 am, Alexander Blok <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's my problem, I have several pdfs that my former publisher supplied > to me after my system crashed and I am trying to put the text in word > format so that I can edit the manuscripts. However, no matter what I > and others try we can't get word to function in the way that the > manuscripts can be edited. > I have both adobe acrobat pro and microsoft office work with but nothing > works in regards being able to edit the converted text document from pdf > to doc. > Anyone know what the eff?
This should work, assuming that the PDFs are truly text, and not rasterized images of text: (1) Open the PDF using Preview, then "Select All" and "Copy" (2) Paste into an empty Word document If you run into copy protection problems and do not have a password, older versions of Preview will often ignore this setting, and allow you to copy. Using Preview is better than using Reader or Acrobat because cut/ pasting from Acrobat will put every line into its own paragraph. This method will preserve some, but not all, formatting. Of particular concern is the fact that Word's styles are not saved when a document is distilled into PDF, so it follows that they cannot be restored when the PDF is "reconverted." If you are dealing with rasterized images, your only hope is using "Document > OCR Text Recognition > Recognize Text Using OCR..." from within Acrobat Pro. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
