[Graham Mayor]

Yes. PDF has nothing to do with compression. If you want compression you
need WinZip, WinRar or similar.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Nahshon Evren wrote:
Thanks for the information -I always thought the point of pdf
was to simply compress a file - am I wrong ?



"Graham Mayor" a écrit dans le message de
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The whole point of PDF is to create a fixed format graphical
representation of the original document. It is not intended to be
deconstructed. You can do that but not without some personal input.

The best tool I have found for the job is Abbyy Finereader's OCR
software, but even that will not give you a true copy of the
original document without putting in some work of your own.

On the other hand a Word document opened on a different PC with
different fonts and printer driver will not look the same either -
which is where PDF came in in the first place.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Nahshon Evren wrote:
OK so there's no 'ultimate' soft to get the thing perfect -
the options are between a mess and a rat's nest ?



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"Jezebel" a écrit dans le message de
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The issue is not so much the application for converting PDF to
Word, but the application from which the PDF was created in the
first place. Some document formats just don't convert very well to
Word.

If you convert a Word document to PDF than back, you generally get
something pretty close to the original; but if the original was
created by something that uses a very different object model (like
PageMaker, Publisher, Corel, etc), then the resulting Word document
will likely be a pig's breakfast, whatever you use for the
conversion.





"Nahshon Evren" doctornash@polyclinic . ch wrote in message
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Hi

I've been trying several .pdf to Word converters,
none seem good enough for recuperating original
formats especially when reuperating tables and figures

Does anyone have any good idea about which pdf to Word
converter is the most effective for preserving formats (any
including scientific tables and graphs?!)

Many many many -

Thanks

Nash