.pdf File To Word2000?

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I need to edit a document from a web site that's in .pdf format. I'd like to
do it in Word. Possible? (The document can't be pulled into Word as a file
'cause it's accessible only by clicking a link on the web site that then
opens the .pdf reader)
 
John said:
I need to edit a document from a web site that's in .pdf format. I'd
like to do it in Word. Possible? (The document can't be pulled into
Word as a file 'cause it's accessible only by clicking a link on the
web site that then opens the .pdf reader)
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PDF is intended as a final publishing format rather than an ongoing edit
format. To extract material from PDF you either need the full Acrobat
product from Adobe or a product like this:
http://www.scansoft.com/pdfconverter/

If you have OCR software you can also try to extract text from screenshots
of the PDF pages.

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The best way, if you have the full version of Acrobat, is to open the
document in Acrobat and save as RTF (which Word can open). The conversion to
RTF is not brilliant -- you'll probably lose quite a lot of the
formatting -- but you will at least get all the text.

Possibly the freebie Acrobat clones (search the shareware sites) offer this
facility also.
 
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Gregory" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 8:25 PM
Subject: .pdf File To Word2000?

I need to edit a document from a web site that's in .pdf format. I'd like to
do it in Word. Possible? (The document can't be pulled into Word as a file
'cause it's accessible only by clicking a link on the web site that then
opens the .pdf reader)
Click to expand...

You may, RATHER than left clicking on the web page link to select the PDF,
RIGHT CLICK and select SAVE AS to your local drive.

This still will NOT, however change what Mike provided about Word not being
able to edit PDF's.

There are some free utilities which provide some conversion from PDF to
other file formats.
http://www.planetpdf.com/
http://www.pdfzone.com/index.asp
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
 
Hi,
You cannot change a file once it is in pdf. The only person that can change it is the person
that has the original doc file.
 
Not true. With the right tools, e.g. Adobe Acrobat amongst others, you
can save the file as RTF (or other formats).

If the PDF file is password protected against change it makes this a bit
harder, but I understand there are ways around this also.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms
 
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