RE: Converting PDF to Word
Thanks for all the suggestions. It seems that I got the most responses about Solid Converter. I really liked Solid Converter, although it didn't bring over the bullets in bulleted lists. Otherwise, it was heads and tails over converting PDFs using Adobe products. I also checked out MIF2go (way too expensive at $295--my company would never pay for it). I looked up Scansoft PDF Converter 6, but I didn't see an offer of a trial version to test out (perhaps I missed it). Then I tried ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0 and was blown away. It brought everything in the PDF over beautifully. And the basic product is only $49.99 (digitally, $59.99 in a box). I'm sold. Now I just have to sell my manager. Thanks to Elizabeth Labine, who suggested ABBYY! Here's a link to the Web site for this product: http://www.abbyyusa.com/shop/PDFT.htm. Lea Galanter Lead Technical Editor and Writer Attenex, an F T I company lgalan...@attenex.com www.attenex.com Phone: 206-689-4438 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Converting PDF to Word
Thanks for all the suggestions. It seems that I got the most responses about Solid Converter. I really liked Solid Converter, although it didn't bring over the bullets in bulleted lists. Otherwise, it was heads and tails over converting PDFs using Adobe products. I also checked out MIF2go (way too expensive at $295--my company would never pay for it). I looked up Scansoft PDF Converter 6, but I didn't see an offer of a trial version to test out (perhaps I missed it). Then I tried ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0 and was blown away. It brought everything in the PDF over beautifully. And the basic product is only $49.99 (digitally, $59.99 in a box). I'm sold. Now I just have to sell my manager. Thanks to Elizabeth Labine, who suggested ABBYY! Here's a link to the Web site for this product: http://www.abbyyusa.com/shop/PDFT.htm. Lea Galanter Lead Technical Editor and Writer Attenex, an F T I company lgalanter at attenex.com www.attenex.com Phone: 206-689-4438
RE: Converting PDF to Word
Hi Lea, You do not need to convert to Word via PDF. Either export directly from FrameMaker (is supposed to be improved in the last versions) or use Mif2Go ($ 295, http://www.omsys.com). Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Lea Galanter Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 5:30 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Converting PDF to Word Hi Framers, I'm hoping someone can help me out with converting PDFs to Word docs. My department creates our user guides in FrameMaker, but other departments want to use our text in their materials as well, so they ask me for a Word version. I have been using Adobe Acrobat to save the PDF as a Word doc but it really looks awful and puts the text in weird chunks -- useable but not pretty. (Yes, we could use a real content management system--we've already asked, and the answer has been an emphatic No.) I started looking for applications that can create a good Word version of a PDF, but thought I might ask here in case anyone is already using one that they can highly recommend (something not expensive). Thanks! Lea Galanter Lead Technical Editor and Writer Attenex, an F T I company lgalan...@attenex.com www.attenex.com Phone: 206-689-4438 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Converting PDF to Word
MIF2go is the best of the several methods. Cheap for all it does (Word conversion is just one of the many uses). And there's a free eval available from omsys.com so you can try it out. Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com ... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl. -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Reng, Dr. Winfriedwr...@tycoint.com wrote: Hi Lea, You do not need to convert to Word via PDF. Either export directly from FrameMaker (is supposed to be improved in the last versions) or use Mif2Go ($ 295, http://www.omsys.com). Best regards Winfried -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Lea Galanter Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 5:30 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Converting PDF to Word Hi Framers, I'm hoping someone can help me out with converting PDFs to Word docs. My department creates our user guides in FrameMaker, but other departments want to use our text in their materials as well, so they ask me for a Word version. I have been using Adobe Acrobat to save the PDF as a Word doc but it really looks awful and puts the text in weird chunks -- useable but not pretty. (Yes, we could use a real content management system--we've already asked, and the answer has been an emphatic No.) I started looking for applications that can create a good Word version of a PDF, but thought I might ask here in case anyone is already using one that they can highly recommend (something not expensive). Thanks! Lea Galanter Lead Technical Editor and Writer Attenex, an F T I company lgalan...@attenex.com www.attenex.com Phone: 206-689-4438 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as art.campb...@gmail.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Converting PDF to Word
As wilth any file format conversion process, you will always get the best results if you convert from the original source files rather than from some intermediate format. This is particularly true in the case of PDF, because PDF is a *lossy* file format. It is designed to produce the electronic equivalent of printed pages, and it does not retain much of the structural and organizational content that makes the source file editable rather than a simple page image. Tables and figures present an even greater challenge than text does because the conversion tool must infer a tremendous amount of structural information from a pattern of lines. Having said all this, you'll get the best results by converting to RTF directly from the FrameMaker files. Frame's own Save As filter is OK, although under some circumstances (e.g. a large number of graphics) it may be so slow that you'll think the computer has crashed; overnight conversions are not unheard of. The best results usually come from the use of Mif2Go, which does an excellent job of creating a Word version that very closely resembles the FrameMaker original. -Fred Ridder Subject: Converting PDF to Word Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 08:29:39 -0700 From: lgalan...@attenex.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Hi Framers, I'm hoping someone can help me out with converting PDFs to Word docs. My department creates our user guides in FrameMaker, but other departments want to use our text in their materials as well, so they ask me for a Word version. I have been using Adobe Acrobat to save the PDF as a Word doc but it really looks awful and puts the text in weird chunks -- useable but not pretty. (Yes, we could use a real content management system--we've already asked, and the answer has been an emphatic No.) I started looking for applications that can create a good Word version of a PDF, but thought I might ask here in case anyone is already using one that they can highly recommend (something not expensive). Thanks! Lea Galanter Lead Technical Editor and Writer Attenex, an F T I company lgalan...@attenex.com www.attenex.com Phone: 206-689-4438 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Converting PDF to Word
Hi Lea, We have been using "Solid PDF tools" converter with great success and this costs 5 cents less than 100 dollars:-) regards Ankur On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Lea Galanter wrote: > Hi Framers, > > I'm hoping someone can help me out with converting PDFs to Word docs. My > department creates our user guides in FrameMaker, but other departments > want to use our text in their materials as well, so they ask me for a > Word version. I have been using Adobe Acrobat to save the PDF as a Word > doc but it really looks awful and puts the text in weird chunks -- > useable but not pretty. (Yes, we could use a real content management > system--we've already asked, and the answer has been an emphatic No.) > > I started looking for applications that can create a good Word version > of a PDF, but thought I might ask here in case anyone is already using > one that they can highly recommend (something not expensive). > > Thanks! > > Lea Galanter > Lead Technical Editor and Writer > Attenex, an F T I company > lgalanter at attenex.com > www.attenex.com > Phone: 206-689-4438 > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as ankur.1978 at gmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ankur.1978%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >
Converting PDF to Word
At 01:53 PM 7/07/2009, Syed.Hosain at aeris.net wrote:
>I use PDF Convertor Pro for PDF->Word conversions ... works reasonably
>well, but still needs a lot of cleaning up after the work is done.
NitroPDF Professional does a perfect conversion - at least to {blush} Word 7,
which is the youngest version of Word I have or ever will have. I guess this
answer is a bit off-topic in the Framemaker users' list. ;-)
HB
Converting PDF to Word
Hi Lea, You do not need to convert to Word via PDF. Either export directly from FrameMaker (is supposed to be improved in the last versions) or use Mif2Go ($ 295, http://www.omsys.com). Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of > Lea Galanter > Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 5:30 PM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Converting PDF to Word > > Hi Framers, > > I'm hoping someone can help me out with converting PDFs to > Word docs. My > department creates our user guides in FrameMaker, but other > departments > want to use our text in their materials as well, so they ask me for a > Word version. I have been using Adobe Acrobat to save the PDF > as a Word > doc but it really looks awful and puts the text in weird chunks -- > useable but not pretty. (Yes, we could use a real content management > system--we've already asked, and the answer has been an emphatic No.) > > I started looking for applications that can create a good Word version > of a PDF, but thought I might ask here in case anyone is already using > one that they can highly recommend (something not expensive). > > Thanks! > > Lea Galanter > Lead Technical Editor and Writer > Attenex, an F T I company > lgalanter at attenex.com > www.attenex.com > Phone: 206-689-4438
Converting PDF to Word
MIF2go is the best of the several methods. Cheap for all it does (Word conversion is just one of the many uses). And there's a free eval available from omsys.com so you can try it out. Art Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Reng, Dr. Winfried wrote: > Hi Lea, > > You do not need to convert to Word via PDF. Either export > directly from FrameMaker (is supposed to be improved in the > last versions) or use Mif2Go ($ 295, http://www.omsys.com). > > Best regards > > Winfried > >> -Original Message- >> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com >> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of >> Lea Galanter >> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 5:30 PM >> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com >> Subject: Converting PDF to Word >> >> Hi Framers, >> >> I'm hoping someone can help me out with converting PDFs to >> Word docs. My >> department creates our user guides in FrameMaker, but other >> departments >> want to use our text in their materials as well, so they ask me for a >> Word version. I have been using Adobe Acrobat to save the PDF >> as a Word >> doc but it really looks awful and puts the text in weird chunks -- >> useable but not pretty. (Yes, we could use a real content management >> system--we've already asked, and the answer has been an emphatic No.) >> >> I started looking for applications that can create a good Word version >> of a PDF, but thought I might ask here in case anyone is already using >> one that they can highly recommend (something not expensive). >> >> Thanks! >> >> Lea Galanter >> Lead Technical Editor and Writer >> Attenex, an F T I company >> lgalanter at attenex.com >> www.attenex.com >> Phone: 206-689-4438 > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as art.campbell at gmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >
Converting PDF to Word
As wilth any file format conversion process, you will always get the best results if you convert from the original source files rather than from some intermediate format. This is particularly true in the case of PDF, because PDF is a *lossy* file format. It is designed to produce the electronic equivalent of printed pages, and it does not retain much of the structural and organizational content that makes the source file editable rather than a simple page image. Tables and figures present an even greater challenge than text does because the conversion tool must infer a tremendous amount of structural information from a pattern of lines. Having said all this, you'll get the best results by converting to RTF directly from the FrameMaker files. Frame's own Save As filter is OK, although under some circumstances (e.g. a large number of graphics) it may be so slow that you'll think the computer has crashed; overnight conversions are not unheard of. The best results usually come from the use of Mif2Go, which does an excellent job of creating a Word version that very closely resembles the FrameMaker original. -Fred Ridder > Subject: Converting PDF to Word > Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 08:29:39 -0700 > From: lgalanter at attenex.com > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > > Hi Framers, > > I'm hoping someone can help me out with converting PDFs to Word docs. My > department creates our user guides in FrameMaker, but other departments > want to use our text in their materials as well, so they ask me for a > Word version. I have been using Adobe Acrobat to save the PDF as a Word > doc but it really looks awful and puts the text in weird chunks -- > useable but not pretty. (Yes, we could use a real content management > system--we've already asked, and the answer has been an emphatic No.) > > I started looking for applications that can create a good Word version > of a PDF, but thought I might ask here in case anyone is already using > one that they can highly recommend (something not expensive). > > Thanks! > > Lea Galanter > Lead Technical Editor and Writer > Attenex, an F T I company > lgalanter at attenex.com > www.attenex.com > Phone: 206-689-4438
Converting PDF to Word
Hi Framers, I'm hoping someone can help me out with converting PDFs to Word docs. My department creates our user guides in FrameMaker, but other departments want to use our text in their materials as well, so they ask me for a Word version. I have been using Adobe Acrobat to save the PDF as a Word doc but it really looks awful and puts the text in weird chunks -- useable but not pretty. (Yes, we could use a real content management system--we've already asked, and the answer has been an emphatic No.) I started looking for applications that can create a good Word version of a PDF, but thought I might ask here in case anyone is already using one that they can highly recommend (something not expensive). Thanks! Lea Galanter Lead Technical Editor and Writer Attenex, an F T I company lgalan...@attenex.com www.attenex.com Phone: 206-689-4438 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Converting PDF to Word
I use PDF Convertor Pro for PDF-Word conversions ... works reasonably well, but still needs a lot of cleaning up after the work is done. Might be easier to use Mif2Go to wrote the RTF for Word, from FrameMaker directly. Z -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Lea Galanter Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 8:30 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Converting PDF to Word Hi Framers, I'm hoping someone can help me out with converting PDFs to Word docs. My department creates our user guides in FrameMaker, but other departments want to use our text in their materials as well, so they ask me for a Word version. I have been using Adobe Acrobat to save the PDF as a Word doc but it really looks awful and puts the text in weird chunks -- useable but not pretty. (Yes, we could use a real content management system--we've already asked, and the answer has been an emphatic No.) I started looking for applications that can create a good Word version of a PDF, but thought I might ask here in case anyone is already using one that they can highly recommend (something not expensive). Thanks! Lea Galanter Lead Technical Editor and Writer Attenex, an F T I company lgalan...@attenex.com www.attenex.com Phone: 206-689-4438 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as syed.hos...@aeris.net. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/syed.hosain%40aeris. net Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Converting PDF to Word
Might be easier to use Mif2Go to wrote the RTF for Word, from FrameMaker directly. Argh ... wrote should be write. Z ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Converting PDF to Word
Hi Lea, We have been using Solid PDF tools converter with great success and this costs 5 cents less than 100 dollars:-) regards Ankur On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Lea Galanter lgalan...@attenex.com wrote: Hi Framers, I'm hoping someone can help me out with converting PDFs to Word docs. My department creates our user guides in FrameMaker, but other departments want to use our text in their materials as well, so they ask me for a Word version. I have been using Adobe Acrobat to save the PDF as a Word doc but it really looks awful and puts the text in weird chunks -- useable but not pretty. (Yes, we could use a real content management system--we've already asked, and the answer has been an emphatic No.) I started looking for applications that can create a good Word version of a PDF, but thought I might ask here in case anyone is already using one that they can highly recommend (something not expensive). Thanks! Lea Galanter Lead Technical Editor and Writer Attenex, an F T I company lgalan...@attenex.com www.attenex.com Phone: 206-689-4438 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as ankur.1...@gmail.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ankur.1978%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Converting PDF to Word
At 01:53 PM 7/07/2009, syed.hos...@aeris.net wrote:
I use PDF Convertor Pro for PDF-Word conversions ... works reasonably
well, but still needs a lot of cleaning up after the work is done.
NitroPDF Professional does a perfect conversion - at least to {blush} Word 7,
which is the youngest version of Word I have or ever will have. I guess this
answer is a bit off-topic in the Framemaker users' list. ;-)
HB
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I use PDF Convertor Pro for PDF->Word conversions ... works reasonably well, but still needs a lot of cleaning up after the work is done. Might be easier to use Mif2Go to wrote the RTF for Word, from FrameMaker directly. Z -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Lea Galanter Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 8:30 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Converting PDF to Word Hi Framers, I'm hoping someone can help me out with converting PDFs to Word docs. My department creates our user guides in FrameMaker, but other departments want to use our text in their materials as well, so they ask me for a Word version. I have been using Adobe Acrobat to save the PDF as a Word doc but it really looks awful and puts the text in weird chunks -- useable but not pretty. (Yes, we could use a real content management system--we've already asked, and the answer has been an emphatic No.) I started looking for applications that can create a good Word version of a PDF, but thought I might ask here in case anyone is already using one that they can highly recommend (something not expensive). Thanks! Lea Galanter Lead Technical Editor and Writer Attenex, an F T I company lgalanter at attenex.com www.attenex.com Phone: 206-689-4438 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as Syed.Hosain at aeris.net. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/syed.hosain%40aeris. net Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Converting PDF to Word
> Might be easier to use Mif2Go to wrote the RTF for Word, from FrameMaker directly. Argh ... "wrote" should be "write". Z
Converting PDF to Word
Hi Framers, I'm hoping someone can help me out with converting PDFs to Word docs. My department creates our user guides in FrameMaker, but other departments want to use our text in their materials as well, so they ask me for a Word version. I have been using Adobe Acrobat to save the PDF as a Word doc but it really looks awful and puts the text in weird chunks -- useable but not pretty. (Yes, we could use a real content management system--we've already asked, and the answer has been an emphatic No.) I started looking for applications that can create a good Word version of a PDF, but thought I might ask here in case anyone is already using one that they can highly recommend (something not expensive). Thanks! Lea Galanter Lead Technical Editor and Writer Attenex, an F T I company lgalanter at attenex.com www.attenex.com Phone: 206-689-4438
