Acrobat is the Devil! How to convert pdf to doc or html?

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Kelvrick

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OMG. PDF is the devil! I got home today and my gf tells me how she spent like an hour downloading lecture notes in pdf format and like 15 minutes downloading acrobat reader and now it won't open her files. So, I tell her to send me links and I download the files and try to convert them to word. No luck... I can only get it in rich text format, but then the text is all along the left and aren't in the same places they are in the pdf file.

She's on a 56k modem but I'm pretty sure she downloads at like 2k/sec or something like that. I converted each page to jpg and tiff and all that, but then that'll take all day for me to upload to her.
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Anyway, I tried a search on download.com and google and I couldn't find anything. Can anyone help??

Thanks!!
 
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Quixfire

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I work with Acrobat everyday and what you are asking is not possible. So unless you want to copy and paste their is no other option. Sorry!
 
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Kelvrick

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Originally posted by: Quixfire
I work with Acrobat everyday and what you are asking is not possible. So unless you want to copy and paste their is no other option. Sorry!
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:( THanks anyway. I think I'll just upload her all the jpgs.
 
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SuperTool

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I know that google can display pdfs as html.
I am not sure what they use. It might be some custom program they have.
Your best bet is to get acroread to work on her pc though.
Or you could just print out the docs and give them to your gf :D
 
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Kelvrick

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Originally posted by: HiveMaster
I work with Acrobat everyday and what you are asking is not possible. So unless you want to copy and paste their is no other option. Sorry!
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PDF to word converter.

Another.

Aaaaand another...

Aaaaaaaand still another.

Sorry, but any professional wordsmith knows there are many many options for conversion of pdf to other file types.

Of course, it helps a lot to have a full version of Acrobat and not just the reader...
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Yea, I found those programs too. I don't wanna pay though. I mean, it'll just be used this one time. I'd pay a couple bucks i guess for an upload/convert/download service though.

I can't print them out and give them to her. We're about 400 miles apart until college starts up again.

I do ahve the full acrobat program.
 
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diskop

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If you have the full acrobat I suppose you could just copy paste into whatever you're lookin for. But what's wrong with her acrobat reader? How come it won't open her files? What's the error message that it's giving? You should help her fix that first, it's probably some little thing that she's not seeing.
 
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SSP

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Maybe fax the printout? There has to be a fax machine she can use at school/work, or one of those copy places do it for a fee.
 
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Kelvrick

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Originally posted by: SSP
Maybe fax the printout? There has to be a fax machine she can use at school/work, or one of those copy places do it for a fee.
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Naa. Her family is really bad with technology... I'm just gonna fix her acrobat later today. If not, then she'll print all that crap in the computer lab when she goes to school tomorrow.
 
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Fritzo

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I was just talking about pdf's to a person at work today. How in God's name did that ever become a standard?????? "HEY....let's take this 18k Word document and make it into a 18 MEG document that you have to download a 9 meg reader to view!" "YEAH!!! WHAT A GREAT IDEA!!!!"
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Soybomb

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Originally posted by: Fritzo
I was just talking about pdf's to a person at work today. How in God's name did that ever become a standard?????? "HEY....let's take this 18k Word document and make it into a 18 MEG document that you have to download a 9 meg reader to view!" "YEAH!!! WHAT A GREAT IDEA!!!!"
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It is a great idea. No matter what platform (win, pc, or mac, or even other) you use, the document and its formatting looks the same. Even HTML renders differently.... So to me at least it sounds like a good idea
 
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MrHappyMonkey

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Originally posted by: Fritzo
I was just talking about pdf's to a person at work today. How in God's name did that ever become a standard?????? "HEY....let's take this 18k Word document and make it into a 18 MEG document that you have to download a 9 meg reader to view!" "YEAH!!! WHAT A GREAT IDEA!!!!"
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I think it's pretty good. I send invoices and all documents to clients with it. Most files aren't over 20k (basic invoices from Quickbooks and proposal and such in Word). it's great becuase the document looks the same no matter who prints it out. Most people seem to have acrobat installed, so it's pretty much as standard as MS word.
 
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bloinkster

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I was just talking about pdf's to a person at work today. How in God's name did that ever become a standard?????? "HEY....let's take this 18k Word document and make it into a 18 MEG document that you have to download a 9 meg reader to view!" "YEAH!!! WHAT A GREAT IDEA!!!!"
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You must be doing something wrong if an 18k word doc becomes an 18 mb pdf. If the pdf is that much bigger you're probably embedding the fonts, which isn't a bad idea if you're using any that aren't standard. PDF's are a great idea and I was just talking to someone and we were surprised that microsoft hasn't tried making their own standard. The abilbity to embed fonts, images, and open on any platform is a great idea and my job would be impossible without it. I work at a printing company that has a pdf workflow that allows pdf's to go directly to plate. Its a perfect solution for the printing industry.
 
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