[Framers] Frame alone or Adobe too?
quills
quills at airmail.net
Wed Apr 18 12:38:28 PDT 2018
I have found that RTF is a much more robust and dependable format than Word .docx format. No surprise there.
We always used Tags in PDF, so we have a relatively seamless exchange in formats.
> On Apr 18, 2018, at 12:57, Böðvar Björgvinsson <bodvar at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Mike,
> Thanks. Good to know! :-)
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> Bodvar
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>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 4:46 PM, Mike Wickham <info at mikewickham.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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>>> On 4/18/2018 5:29 AM, Böðvar Björgvinsson wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Mike Wickham
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>>>> On 4/17/2018 12:35 PM, Böðvar Björgvinsson wrote:
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