I suspect Gillian meant "Comment and annotate in a PDF" not "edit" in the sense that a word-worker edits.
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 Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Dov Isaacs <isaacs at adobe.com> wrote: > Editable PDF? Are you kidding? PDF is a final form file format. Any edits > that you can do in PDF should be restricted to emergency situations only. > PDF does not maintain any of the context of the original source document. > The concepts of words, sentences, paragraphs, etc. is limited at best > (if the document is fully tagged) and nonexistent at worst! > > The real problem of the OP is that the client just "doesn't get it" with > regards to the fact that the document model of almost any two layout or > word processing programs are usually not even close. There simply no > 1 to 1 conversions of FrameMaker to Word or vice versa. Something is going > to get lost in such conversions either in terms of content, functionality, > formatting, quality, or some combination of same. This is discounting the > issues of the inherent instability of Word with longer documents and its > apparent inability to maintain document format from one release to another > or even one "current printer driver instance" to the next. > > - Dov > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Flato, Gillian >> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 9:35 AM >> >> Why does he want it in Word? Rather than converting to Word, which will >> be time-consuming and result in a document that has problems, find out >> what his goal is. For example, an Engineer recently said that he wanted >> a document in Word. When I asked him why, he said it was because he >> wanted to edit it. He didn't know that one can make PDFs editable. Once >> I explained that to him and showed him how to add edits to the PDF, he >> was happy. So find out what his reasons are and you may be able to >> address them with Frame and PDF. >> >> >> -Gillian > _______________________________________________ > > > 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. >