[Hidden-tech] Converting PDFs to Word?

[Charlie Heath]

Why does the webmaster need a WORD doc, rather than the final PDF?   If 
it's for posting online, PDF is normally the better format.

If you need the source files for art etc, is there any way for you to 
coordinate the work of your content creators with the webmaster?   There 
are some tools & libraries for twiddling PDF files if you need to grab 
the art out or something like that, but it would be easier to coordinate 
the work flow if you're able to.

Charlie Heath
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Eddy Goldberg wrote:
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> Hi H-Ters,
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> I'm editor at 2 quarterly business magazines. We publish in print and 
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> We're looking for the simplest, most automated (if possible) way to 
> convert the final PDF files we send our printer into MS-Word so our 
> webmaster can post the upcoming issue online ASAP. Our Art director is 
> doing it manually now, not the best use of her time. Here's what our 
> webmaster wrote:
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> "I need articles in MS Word, plus I need a PDF copy of the magazine so 
> that we can use it as a guide when posting the articles, as well as 
> extract the images from the PDFs for use in the online articles. We 
> will not pull content from the PDF copy as Acrobat does nasty things 
> to text when you pull it out of a PDF. It's a nightmare to work with 
> PDF-extracted text."
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> Questions:
> 1) Any help with converting PDFs to Word?
> 2) Is there a better way to do this?
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> Thanks for any ideas,
> Eddy
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