[X-Newbies] Another PDF file question.

[Robert MacLeay]

I have the full version of Acrobat Pro and can assure you, in addition to
being expensive, it does a truly mediocre job.

As Randy said, PDF files are neither word processing nor page layout
documents.  They are an elaborate form of printer instructions which only
look like they are formatted.

Cutting and pasting out of Preview will give you as close a copy as you can
reasonably expect.


On 1/5/07 1:11 PM, "Randy B.Singer" <randy at macattorney.com> wrote:

> OmniPage Pro and the full version of Acrobat will also do it, but I
> assume that you aren't looking for a solution that is that expensive.


On 1/5/07 12:44 PM, "Brian Durant" <globetrotterdk at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have managed to recover some of my resume files after my hard disk
> debacle from another source. Unfortunately, they are in .pdf format
> and I need to be able to convert them into .doc files to preserve as
> much of the formating as possible. Are there any simple OS X apps that
> can do this well? I have access to an IBM machine running Win XP,
> so... if nothing else is available, I could try something (gasp) that
> runs on XP.
> 
> I am just looking for a simple, quick and dirty solution that does a
> good job of preserving formating.