This has been a very confusing thread, especially since I cannot locate a message with subject of "Turn PDF into Word and more" that is not a reply. Therefore I am not sure what the original poster was seeking to do. Udo Huth is correct in saying that the question has not been fully answered. I know that there are commercial programs that convert PDF files into formated text but I cannot comment on those.
This will not work for all PDF documents but what I do when I want to save editable text from a PDF is to select and copy the text and paste into a text application. I know that this works on PDF files created by Word on a PC since I receive such files and have copied text from them for saving in a text file. The formatting is not preserved but for most cases I can do some simple formatting to get the gist of the presentation. Whenever possible I open all PDF files in Preview as Acrobat reader is horribly slow on my system. I now create PDFs from the Print dialog but I used to use PrintToPDF in OS 9 and of course then read PDFs with Acrobat Reader. I believe the copy and paste worked the same back in OS 9 days. Skid Kennedy On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:30:28 +0100, Udo Huth wrote: >> Ok so no one has answered this really. >> Print to pdf works the opposite of what is saught. >> What we are looking for here is pdf to word or pdf to pages >> or something like that pdf to Pages would be a great tool. > > As far as I know (at least with Mac OS Classic) the only way to change a PDF > into something else is the full version of Adobe Acrobat. It lets you save > the contents of a PDF to some different formats. RTF being one of them. > > Udo > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
