(Apologies to the OP for first sending this to him and not the group.) On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:16:25 -0400, in perl you wrote:
> Disclaimer: I'm using Acrobat 10 and Office 2010, so YMMV. > > I opened the PDF in Acrobat and selected File, Save As, then chose > "Tables in Excel Spreadsheet (*.xml)". I opened the resulting xml in > Excel, and the data was properly lined up in columns. There were only > 50 entries per sheet (one PDF page per sheet), but there were only 5 > sheets, and the fifth sheet had the last page of the PDF. So it was > missing most of the data from the PDF. I'm using Foxit, which doesn't have the options you describe. What it does have is something I found incredibly irritating: a function called "Text Viewer". Select this function, and the document appears as fixed-width plain text, which is exactly a format I could use: I'd just have to count the number of characters in what would be each column, and create the array that way. However, the "Text Viewer" function *doesn't allow you to copy text*. (At least, not with the freeware version.) And it's claimed that PDF stands for "Portable" document format. At every turn I find PDFs to be less portable than plain text. -- Ted S. fedya at hughes dot net Now blogging at http://justacineast.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
