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Thread ID: 26647	2002-11-01 19:53:00	Download a .pdf & edit in Word on pc	Peter (676)	Press F1

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95231	2002-11-01 19:53:00	How can I download a .pdf from the web onto my pc so I can edit the text in Word2000 then print the changed document? TIA. Peter E.	Peter (676)
95232	2002-11-01 20:01:00	Unless the PDF is saved in some kind of text format (a lot are saved as images), you can't do it. If it's saved as text, you should be able to select all the text, and copy and paste into Word. To edit the actual PDF file though, you'll need Adobe Acrobat (the writer, not the free reader), and an unprotected PDF file. Mike.	Mike (15)
95233	2002-11-01 20:11:00	PDF is a format for output and review, not a source format intended for editing. For all major editing, you should go back to the original source document and afterwards re-create the PDF output. There may be software available for download which will enable you to edit but I am not familiar with any.	Jim B (153)
95234	2002-11-01 22:06:00	HI Peter I have this problem constantly with pdf files. I am the editor of a magazine and so get the odd pdf file to use in print. A pain in the ass! I have purchased Acrobat (yes the whole package) and yet it still only allows text selection via mouse. You can select all, but it's not intelligent enough to allow for columns etc. You can change the text selection tool to column format, but still it is very messy and extremely time consuming. You can also use the table format for selecting text but this simply creates a table in word with a cell for each line in the pdf...you can then use word to convert the table to text but then you need still to reformat the text to remove the paragraph marks. Another problem is that when you copy and paste hard returns are carried over to the document in word. You then either have to manually delete them, or use find and replace which still leaves you with some formatting to do after the hard returns have been deleted and replaced with say a "space". Sorry cannot help more...if you find the answer let others know please.	falvrez (390)
95235	2002-11-01 22:43:00	You might want to check out this program, I don't know anything about it though. http://www.jawspdf.com/ Jaws PDF Editor enables you view, edit, save and print PDF files on computers using Windows NT, 2000 or XP. With Jaws PDF Editor, you can significantly accelerate your review cycles using powerful commenting tools, while protecting the integrity of your source document. Jaws PDF Editor also allows you to easily insert, extract, delete and rotate and re-order pages from multiple PDF files to produce one PDF file. Jaws PDF Editor provides a cost effective, reliable and easy to use tool within the corporate, government and education markets and is available as a companion application to Jaws PDF Creator or as a standalone product.	Jim B (153)
95236	2002-11-02 01:45:00	It looks as if the answer is to tell your contributors that plain text is what you want. Some magazines explicitly say that emailed letters to the editor are acceptable, but with no attachments. If there's any .doc or anything, the whole letter is binned. A number of technical magazines I read regularly tell potential contributors that they don't want "nicely formatted" and "fonted" articles. The magazine has its own style, and wants the content. Its staff are the professionals and will do the packaging.	Graham L (2)
95237	2002-11-02 03:25:00	HI Graham It is explained in great detail how I don't want any formatting and most freelance writers and submissions (letters) come in word or txt files with little formatting. But the problem lies with advertisers, who occasionalyy have some advertorial - they often only have a pdf of a brochure or whatever, and not the original doc.	falvrez (390)
95238	2002-11-03 19:05:00	Thanks for your help. Looks like someone will have to transcribe the .pdf into .txt the long hard way.	Peter (676)
95239	2002-11-04 03:00:00	Depending on how your printing plates are created (photographically, oir electronically). You might still be able to do a pasteup. Talk to your printers. They might be able to cut in a replacement section of text to replacce the original. Rubber cement is wonderful. (So was Letraset).	Graham L (2)
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