Thanks Chap,
I've only done smaller simpler PDF things in Word.
I can't imagine how you would recreate an Index in Word if you started
with a PDF. The codes are there hidden in the RTF version.
However, there's less editing if you start with the PDF version as the
images are correctly sized and placed.
Cathy
Leon Chapman wrote:
Kathy:
You are correct that the latest version of Word will convert simple
PDF files to Word documents. I tried converting my latest book that I
published which was 535 pages, 8 1/2 X 11, hardback cover book. The
results were totally unusable.
In my book, using the Publishing Center, I had about 20 chapters,
including ancestor and descendant charts, family group sheets,
Chronology reports, multiple family descendants with lots of pictures,
origins and migration chapters with full indexing of sourcing, names
and locations at the end. MS Word conversion of that document trashed
everything but the 1st page of the report - it all became a mess with
breaks in pages, charts with any lines were totally trashed. It would
take a several weeks to repair the document after Words conversion of
my book.
I have tested several PDF converters and almost all of them have major
problems with say the Chronology report. If you want to test PDF
converters, just try a few chapters that has a Chronology report, a
family group sheet, and an ancestor and descendant chart. Even the
text in a descendant report with lots of events and pictures cause
many problems with most converters. If it is a very simple text
document, then most of the converters do fine, but Legacy/Genealogy
reports are very complex with lines, indents, spacing, & pictures issues.
The single PDF converter that I found to work very well is SmartPDF
converter.
I have found that if you try to create indexes in Word for converted
documents that you will have a problem in creating the 3 indexes at
the end: 1) Sourcing, 2) Name index and 3) Location index. You will
probably have luck with the Table of Contents and maybe sourcing. The
others often are an issue in Word without lots of work to the document
to manually insert all of the sourcing index location. Names becomes
an issue since many people appear on multiple pages.
If you let Legacy do all the indexing, report writing, page numbering,
headers and footers, then all that is left is to insert a chapter or
two that you have left blank chapters for. The SmartPDF converter
allows you to separate the PDF into parts and then you can reassemble
the PDF parts. I separate the blank chapter and then use Word to add
text or an image like a descendant chart to that chapter and create a
PDF of just that chapter and use SmartPDF to put the parts back
together -- that way all the page number and indexing stay in place --
you will be missing index items for the blank pages that were
inserted, but usually, that is only a few pages and in many cases,
just pictures or chart images.
I have a 3-4 page set of guidelines that I used in publishing these
books that I have shared to several people on this list.
Anyway, that is the best way that I have found in publishing 5
hardback cover books of over 400 pages in each book. One was close to
800 pages.
The best way is to start simple with a few Chapters in a book and try
some simple reports and convert them and see what happens. If things
work ok for you, then use it.
Chap
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Leon Chapman
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Cathy Pinner <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Chap,
Recent versions of Word can be used to edit a PDF. You don't need
another program.
However, if you're going to do much editing in Word, then you need
to save your book to RTF so you can generate Table of Contents and
Indexes when you've finished editing.
Cathy
Leon Chapman wrote:
If it is not in the column list on left (Available Items) in the
Publishing Center, then NO you cannot add that item. Address
list is
not in the options for Chapters in the Publication Center.
You can do this to add an Address list:
1. Create a report under View > Master Lists > Address > Mail
and
save as a Text File. Note the number of pages in this Text file.
2. In the Publication center, you can add a chapter using "Place
Holder" and specify the number of pages in your Address text file
you
created in 1.
3. After you have created your Report in Publication Center and
Saved
it as a PDF, You will need to convert that to a Word file and then
within Word, insert the Address text file in those black pages.
An excellent PDF converter to Word is called SmartPDF Converter. It
will cost you some $$, but is well worth it. You can find info
on it
at www.smartpdfconverter.com <http://www.smartpdfconverter.com>
<http://www.smartpdfconverter.com>.
Chap
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Leon Chapman
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
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On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 7:57 AM, Poppke Genealogy
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
Is there a way to add an address list as a section in the
publishing center?
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