I have Adobe Exchange 3.0, but it does not convert PDF to any other word processor format (with formatting and things like boxes and lines intact). It does, however, let you edit the PDF files themselves. It can be hard to figure out how to edit it to look the way you want, or even just to fill in blanks while preserving the line underneath. At 12:19 PM 1/7/99 -0500, thus did you send forth: > >At 16:23 1/6/99 -0600, Houston, Jim wrote: >>No relation to Flow but I need some help. There is a lot of info out there >>shown as PDF files. Some of this I would like to capture as an editable >>Word Document. Dow any one know what I need. > >Jim: > >Good question. I've wondered about this too and found that within Adobe >(3.0) I can "select all" and through the windows clip-board (copy-paste) I >can place the text into WPerfect (Word do as well). However, it comes with >the price of a total loss of font and formatting as it all comes up in your >default font. If you just want the text, short of retyping it all, this >will work. > >If you want all the PDF bells and whistles, then Adobe makes mention on >their web page of an application called "Adobe Exchange". I have no idea >how this works. --Janet ---------------------------------------- Janet E. Lewis UWCCC Flow Cytometry Facility Clinical Sciences Center, K4/535 600 Highland Ave. Madison, WI 53792-0001 (608)263-0313 jelewis1@facstaff.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------
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