Re: From pdf to rtf to editable text?

Wrt the orientation issue, why not change the orientation of your
document/section to Landscape to accommodate the rotated picture?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Prof. JR" <ProfJR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Mr. Buckland,

I've posted a fairly typical article, this one in French, on my Office
Live
workspace. Do you need to be able to view or edit, and, if so, do you
need
to be put on the viewer or editor list? If so, how best to do that?

The particular essay is posted twice: one in the pdf form in which it
arrived from ILL and the other in the rtf, using Word 2007, as it was
converted using Adobe Acrobat.

This essay also shows another problem I've not solved but which I presume
will resolve once, and if, editable text is obtained. The pdf document
was
scanned two pages at a time for each page, and they run side-ways
(vertically) from bottom to top. (Whoever scanned it just plunked the
journal on the computer and copied in a way that produced two-on-one
copies.)
This is no problem in Adobe because you just rotate the screen for viewing
and printing out. The same positioning appears in Word, two-on-one,
vertical
from bottom to top. The good news/bad news: the good news is that
because
Word reads this as a picture it can be rotated; the bad news is that once
rotated the length (which would typically be 11" if printed out) now fits
across the width (8 1/2" if printed out) and so text is lost on the right
side.

Please let me know how to proceed. Thanks for your help.

John




"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

Hi John,

By any chance is it possible for you to provide or create a link to a
typical(?) sample library PDF that you're wanting to convert
into text in Word? (i.e. on a blog/website/free online file storage
service (http://workspace.officelive.com
or http://skydrive.live.com for example)?

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<<"Prof. JR" <ProfJR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Folks,

As Ms. Barnhill suggests above, ILL libraries may have scanned these
files
in as pictures because Word treats them as such, as does other software
that
I have. I'm not sure I can actually arrive at text that the conversion
software, mentioned by Mr. Mayor and Mr. Buckland, will be able to read.
Maybe I'm out of luck and must return to the scriptorium of word
processing,
carefully entering the text by hand.

John >>
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*






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