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 ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com ----- On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Cathy Pinner <c...@westnet.com.au> 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>. > > Chap > > > > ___ > Leon Chapman > chap...@gmail.com <mailto:chap...@gmail.com> > ----- > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 7:57 AM, Poppke Genealogy > <nodakgeneal...@gmail.com <mailto:nodakgeneal...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Is there a way to add an address list as a section in the > publishing center? > > -- > > > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > >
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