PDF to framemaker

[Steve Rickaby]

At 15:06 -0500 11/1/07, Kenneth C. Benson wrote:

>PDF is mostly a one-way street. It's an end product. The text in a PDF is
>set line by line and page by page. Any method of converting PDF back to
>formatted text and graphics is going to involve a good deal of work and
>judgment. PDFs are complex enough and generated from enough different source
>applications that I can't imagine a tool that could do this for you with any
>degree of reliability.

True... although Recosoft has recently released a product to convert PDF into an editable *InDesign* document, so I guess they must have thought there was a commercial need.

<http://www.recosoft.com/company/press/news01092007.htm>

Same company does lots of other PDF->somethingelse converters, but sadly not for FrameMaker... unsurprisingly. However, you might be able to use one of their converters as a stepping stone, but I don't know whether it would give any advantage over a save to RTF from Acrobat.

-- 
Steve