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Now that's it's lunch time and it's raining outside, I decided to try an experiment. I took a document that was created in MS Word with Futura font, then created a PDF out of it, then ran the Abbyy program, and yes it thought the font was Arial in the text window in Abbyy. I selected what I wanted to be a different font, went to the font pull down menu and selected Futura and then sent it to MS Word, and the text in the document in MS Word was still Futura. Now I agree it would have been nice if Abbyy had kept it as Futura, but at least this way I can still edit the text in MS Word. If I saved it as a jpg, I would waste more time trying to edit the text there. Kerry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Sprague Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 8:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PDF] Saving PDF File to Word Doc The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __________________________________________________________________ Interesting alternative, but... I tested the same ad with Abbyy and basically it just placed an image of the PDF in the Word doc. This could have been done for free by saving the PDF as a jpg. If there wasn't text over the image, then the text retained its editability. The problem here is that the original text was in futura, and Abbyy converted it to Arial. The concept that a professional designer can send a Word file conversion (from InDesign, PageMaker, Illustator, etc.) to a client for editing or other use, and have it look exactly like the original design, has more holes in it than Swiss cheese. This is a dilemma for many designers, as I have had clients who don't understand why I can't just send them a Word file from my creations. It seems that they have been convinced by the Microsoft Gods that the final word in document creation is, in fact, Word. That said, many clients who are mired in arial/times new roman quicksand see no difference or value in font selection, and simply replace futura with arial. Ah, the battle between designers and corporate document technicians lives on. Of course, this is often a contest between egos and money, with staff unhappy that designers charge $50 to $150 an hour, claiming that the precise and creative work of designers is an unnecessary expenditure of corporate pennies. After all, there really isn't any difference between futura and arial, is there? Rich -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kavanaugh, Kerry P Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 4:57 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [PDF] Saving PDF File to Word Doc The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __________________________________________________________________ Another solution is to use a program like Abby Finereader which can convert your PDF (with graphics) to MS Word. The top end version of this program can also output to XML. Kerry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Brown Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 6:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PDF] Saving PDF File to Word Doc The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __________________________________________________________________ Quoting Rich Sprague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | > http://www.pdfzone.com > __________________________________________________________________ > > This is the same old, same old. > > I took an add made in InDeign which had text on top of an image. Then > I saved a Word doc from the PDF. > > With the print to Adobe PDF version, the image didn't appear in the > Word doc. > > With the export to PDF version, the image appeared by itself, followed > by the text. > > In both cases, the text fonts and styles were botched. > > The moral to the story...the PDF format was never intended to be a > means to convert a page layout-designed document into a Word doc. Sorry, I didn't read this entire thread, but there are of course other options that are in many cases better at doing this then Adobe Acrobat. Try Scansoft PDFConverter or BCL Jade for example. Speaking of such options, has anyone tried and been happy with PDF-XML programs like CambrdigeDocs? > Rich > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of JR Boulay > Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 2:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PDF] Saving PDF File to Word Doc > > > The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | > http://www.pdfzone.com > __________________________________________________________________ > > Considers that you're lucky, each time I'd tried to save as .doc, > Acrobat crashs... ;-( > > I get better results by selecting all texts, and copy-pasting to a > word processor. > > > To change your subscription: > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html > > > To change your subscription: > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html > > To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
