Revert pdf?

[MHPGuy]

Is there a way to revert an unsecured .pdf back to a document or txt file?

Michael Phipps
Technical Business Analyst
Mercy Health Plans

 

[Jontmke]

Yes, but it is a plugin for Acrobat (The full Version, not the reader). It saves as an RTF whcich wil work in Word. Then you can save in Doc style.

Jon

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. (Bertrand Russell)

 

[MHPGuy]

Great! Any idea where to get it and / or the name?

Michael Phipps
Technical Business Analyst
Mercy Health Plans

 

[Jontmke]

First you need Adobe Acrobat. It is Expensive! About $350 US. It can save as an rtf but the format gets a little weird. I saw a third party plug in that costs another $250 US that perports to do a better job, but have not tried it.

What is it you need to do? Edit the files? You can use Acrobat for that and re-save as pdf if you want.

Jon

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. (Bertrand Russell)

 

[ToryG]

I think that there are some other vendors out there besides Adobe that can do PDF to DOC/RTF, etc. Just search around on PDFPlanet.com or PDFZONE.COM

 

[MHPGuy]

Jontmke, that is the problem... I've got Acrobat and distiller. When I try to revert it using Acrobat, the majority of formatting is either stripped or just "off".

The problem is when the author of the doc decided that the pdf was "good enough" and deleted the original word doc. Now it needs major revision and the degree of change is just not feasible in Acrobat.

Oh well... I feel sorry for the person who has to re-create it.

Michael Phipps
Technical Business Analyst
Mercy Health Plans

 

[bcastner]

Print it out, take it to Kinko's, and let them try to scan and convert the document preserving the formatting. A good business-oriented copy center does this all day long and has the tools and experience to help you.

 

[bcastner]

Oh, and take a floppy copy of the PDF with you.