Fw: One problem down, one new one comes up

[Ken Poshedly]

Just to let all of you know that a suggestion by Simon North about ABBY PDF Transformer seems to be the answer to my problem about an "uncooperative" pdf file described below. 

Simon sent me a Word file resulting from a one-page sample pdf file I sent him, and it was just great. The review on C-Net is only so-so, but if it does what I need, tough. Let's hear one for Simon!

-- Kenpo in Atlanta

 

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[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Ken Poshedly
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 9:59 AM
To: FrameMaker Users List
Subject: One problem down, one new one comes up

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New head-scratcher. But first -- Windows Vista platform with Adobe
FrameMaker 8.0 and Adobe Acrobat Professional 9.0.

Unfortunately, the English-language source materials I get from our home
office in China are pdf files produced by third parties; the culture there
allows the third party to keep all native files and deliver ONLY the pdf
files (and maybe printed copies if so stipulated). This is akin to wedding
photographers here retaining possession of their negatives (are they still
used?) but deliver only a nice album with prints.

The only times I've been able to somehow get an English-language Word file
was apparently before the project was jobbed out, so the subsequent pdf file
I might get is markedly different.

As usual, I've inherited a white elephant, specifically this time a 416-page
pdf parts book which I need to heavily edit into the format used we use here
at the U.S. offices of the home company. The problem is that the pdf file
was created in China to somehow partially (note the word "partially")
prevent one from "saving as" or exporting any of the pages into Word or rtf
pages that can be imported into FrameMaker and then massaged via
FrameMaker's Table Designer into the approved table format I need. And yes,
I've tried the Acrobat OCR tool with no success.

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