[Framers] Frame alone or Adobe too?

[Böðvar Björgvinsson]

Mike,
Thanks. Good to know! :-)

Bodvar





On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 4:46 PM, Mike Wickham <info at mikewickham.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 12:09 AM, Mike Wickham <info at mikewickham.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Bodvar,
>>>
>>> It might depend on whether the PDF was saved as tagged PDF or not.
>>>
>>> Mike Wickham
>>>
>>> On 4/17/2018 12:35 PM, Böðvar Björgvinsson wrote:
>>>
>>>
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