From: DJ Vollkasko (DJ_Vollkasko_at_gmx.net)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2005 - 23:44:09 PST
Case closed. I shipped the file to one of the Newtonians who'd offered
his Acrobat Pro's PDF to RTF extraction services. The result was a bit
bloated (12 MB) when I opened it in NeoOffice, but much nicer (1 MB) in
TextEdit.
Thanks to all who offered their help!
D.
> >You can do a save as in Acrobat 6 pro (you may be able to do this on
> >earlier versions, not sure), and it will let you choose RTF.
>
> So sorry to be complicated, but not an option. I only have Acrobat
> Reader 7 - export to txt only, Reader 6 - save as txt only, Reader 5 -
> save as pdf only.
>
>
>> I have this nice, big, fat PDF that I want to turn into a Newton
>> ebook (u r gonna luv dis 1!). Acrobat allows me to export the whole
>> content as txt, but that ain't good enough, it loses me all the
>> formatting (italics, bold, etc.) -- arrrgh!
>>
>>
>> I'm looking for a way to convert the PDF to RTF or to extract the
>> text to RTF on my Mac, either Acrobat 7 plugin or standalone app.
>> Anybody know of something that might help me?
>>
>>
>> Cheers, DJV.
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