Problem exporting .pdf to ANY OTHER FORMAT - is it me?!

[k8fergus]

Hello,



The seasoned tech person will surely roll their eyes a dozen times while reading about my odyssey...



It started as a project in Pagemaker 7 (I know, I know - I'll definitely be moving to InDesign CS4 after this!). I exported the .pmd file into .pdf and sent the .pdf to a committee for review. When the edits came back, I planned to open my PageMaker files and edit them, then reexport. Well, wouldn't you know I HAVE NO IDEA where I put the most recently edited .pmd files. This is nuts - as I am pretty religious about saving/backing up to at least one device other than my PC. (Note: I checked the last time I sent the draft out and it was 5:15pm on a Thursday, so I must have been in a mad dash to get to happy hour and just got careless...My fault.) Anyway, so now I am stuck with a stupid .pdf and OLD .pmd files.



So, my questions are as follows:



1. There is no way I can convert a .pdf into a .pmd file is there? I've looked into this and it really doesn't seem so. Would it then be possible to convert a .pdf into an InDesign file? Probably not, huh?



2. Ok, so seeing how I am probably stuck with the .pdf - - I thought I might be able to export it as an .rtf so I could copy and paste the most recent text into my .pmd file so I don't have to do a ton of re-edits. Brilliant, I thought. You've found a solution! Um, not so much...



Now I can't export the .pdf as ANYTHING - .rtf, .html, .txt, .doc - - - it all turns into symbols. It tells me that Frankin Gothic Book can't be found and then it lists several numbers after the font (eg: Franklin Gothic Book 11,15,23, etc, etc...).




But I have that font installed on all the programs I use! What is going on! Can anyone help me??



Thanks so much!

kate

 

[genomon]

I Googled "convert pdf to text" and got over 9M hits.
Maybe one will work for you?

Illegitimi non carborundum.

 

[cmeagan656]

Have you tried opening Pagemaker and seeing if there is an MRU (Most Recently Used) list under File? I don't use Pagemaker so I don't know if it contains MRUs like a lot of other do. Or File ->Open from withing Pagemaker might bring up the directory where you saved the most recent version?

Hope this helps.

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[apepp]

pdf2indesign is probably your best hope:

http://www.recosoft.com/products/pdf2id/index.htm

no guarantees of spot on results but can save much pain sometimes, but not that cheap unless you have money to burn or a lot of PDF files you need to get through, then perhaps it is worth the cost.

andrew