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RE: PDF to RTF extraction (Anybody have any experience with Iceni 's G emini?)
Subject:RE: PDF to RTF extraction (Anybody have any experience with Iceni 's G emini?) From:Sanjay Srikonda <sanjay -dot- srikonda -at- kiodex -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:29:55 -0500
I actually am facing this issue coming up.
The reasoning behind NOT distributing the actual source is that the parent
company can then say that the manual being produced IS the official release,
anything used ONLY internally and changed by staff via PDF---->RTF
conversion is allowable but only at the other division's risk. Plus, it's
also up to them (the other division) to maintain an up-to-date manual that
they've customized from the PDFs to RTF via their conversion. Sometimes,
it's just not very easy to argue that only one version of a manual should
exist if you've got a manager over you in another department in a physically
separated location saying they'd like to customize the manual for their own
use.
I was doing a search on Adobe's site JUST THIS MORNING, and using Google to
find the following resources:
Converting PDF --> RTF
A PocketPC (freeware) Reader (this is for my own benefit)
The first I found the following, while a bit touchy and not very good with
tables, it's pretty good with straight text.
-----Original Message-----
From: Brierley, Sean [mailto:Sean -at- Quodata -dot- Com]
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 9:19 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: PDF to RTF extraction (Anybody have any experience with
Iceni 's G emini?)
Ok:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Balchunas, John [SMTP:JBalchunas -at- orgtek -dot- com]
>
> I'm looking into ways to facilitate PDF to Word conversions, so that one
> of
> our national companies can translate parts of one of our manuals into
> their
> own training manual (which is not an official release by the company as a
> whole).
>
Um, okay.
> We are accustomed to only releasing PDFs outside of our department
> in order to ensure that text is not changed without our knowledge.
>
Um, okay.
> If we
> can find a way to effectively extract all the text/graphics out of a PDF
> into a RTF/DOC file, it would allow us to avoid sending the source file
> out
> of our department.
>
Um, I'm confused. The text is being changed with your knowledge. Why not
send the source files? PDF is not meant to be word-processed. Why make the
national company translators jump through such hoops **since** you have
already decided to let them edit the content? Just send the source files.
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