Converting a PdF to .doc
 

How do I do this? There is a PdF I want to be able to edit in OpenOffice.

Ty

Dean

Re: Converting a PdF to .doc
 

Heya Dean,

This is going to be a hard one. In general people will use PDF as it guarantees in a way the integrity of what you are reading.

All that being said, I think that Adobe provide sucg a piece of software at a cost, alternatively, if you have an OCR (Optical Character Reader) program that will be possible as well, altough in either case you may loose some of the formatting depending on how it was originally generated.

Good to see soemone using OpenOffice. I have used it for many years and it gets better and better. I had enough of paying $500/year to "upgrade" Microsoft Office.

Cheers

MidGe

Re: Converting a PdF to .doc
 

Get yourself the newest Adobe Acrobat reader - I am using 7.0, this implements a new copy & paste feature, long overdue. (but I did upgrade from 4.0, so it may have appeared anytime between these versions)

I believe this can be disabled by the creator of the PDF file, but I'm not sure of this - yet to encounter a PDF that I couldn't copy & paste [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Choose the caret tool on the toolbar - it looks like an "I", highlight the text, paste into Word, and save.

Enjoy!

dave.

Re: Converting a PdF to .doc