[Framers] Frame alone or Adobe too?

[Mike Wickham]

If you're going to convert to Word from PDF, you might want to used 
tagged PDF for the conversion. Original PDF was not interested in the 
data, only its position. PDFs purpose is page layout. The idea of PDF is 
to create a document that looks exactly the same on every computer 
screen, with no changes due to text flow, installed fonts, window size, 
etc. Consequently, it stores data in very strange ways. Words aren't 
necessarily stored as words, or paragraphs as paragraphs. The phrase 
"text frame" might be stored as "te," "xtf," "r," and "ame" objects, for 
example, and PDF tracks which font and where to draw these bits of text. 
It's weird that the text blocks that are created by PDF, and the visible 
order of them, might even be stored in a different order in the file. So 
trying to put these objects back into proper order for conversion to 
other formats may not work well.

Anyway, as I recall, using tagged PDF causes the PDF to actually store 
paragraphs as paragraph blocks, etc. So, reconstructing the data in a 
proper way for conversion from PDF to Word should be better.

Mike Wickham

On 4/18/2018 5:29 AM, Böðvar Björgvinsson wrote:
> Mike,
> Not tagged. Never do that.
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> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 12:09 AM, Mike Wickham <info at mikewickham.com> wrote:
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>> Bodvar,
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>> It might depend on whether the PDF was saved as tagged PDF or not.
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>> Mike Wickham
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>> On 4/17/2018 12:35 PM, Böðvar Björgvinsson wrote:
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