grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 For those of you out there making PDF files, what software do you use for making them from Word and Excel files? Until now I have used the free download that is an add-in for W and E, but I was wondering what might be good to get if I want something better?　　(Budget is about 1 yen). Thanking you so muchly. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 pdf995 IIRC. has a nag screen but that'll go away if you pay them USD9.95 Link to post Share on other sites
joshnii 2 Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 I use that one gg, works good. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 9, 2008 Author Share Posted September 9, 2008 Thanks JA, looks good will give it a whirl. Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 Once you get used to "printing" it, that software is good. Worth the $10 to get rid of the ads. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 Lemme know how it goes. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 10, 2008 Author Share Posted September 10, 2008 It goes well thank you. Done the deed. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Cheers, I was struggling with some Japanese software without really looking into anything else. This looks good. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Good to be of assistance! Has to happen now and again! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 11, 2008 Author Share Posted September 11, 2008 OK next question.... good software for converting PDFs to Word? Link to post Share on other sites
nzlegend 1 Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 To convert to pdf I use Primo pdf - free and works perfectly. http://www.primopdf.com/ Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 You know those 25 (or however many) digit codes you put in when you buy software and install them, are they all unique? How does that all work then, he asks somewhat naively.... (my friend wants to know) Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 mate, Usually pseudo-random generated and embedded in the code of the CD. Otherwise they'd have to do an individual Cd for each code. Part of the installation code checks that the code input was a "reasonable" guess of the right code. If you have NFI of the structure of the code, you'd spend years trying to manually guess the combination that allowed you to use the product. If you know one code, you MIGHT be able to work out the structure of the generic structiure of the code (but it'd prolly take you a couple of weeks with a seriously powerful computer to work out the structure). Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 gg, NFI, but I suspect it will be more difficult that the word -> pdf thing simply because the pdf is a page description format (hence the name) and describes the page by specifying where the printer is to place the black dots we know as toner or ink spots. To translate this into a word file would require some method of recognising the form of the dots and, for example, seeing that a given shape is an "a". OK, you could scan the thing and use OCR, but I doubt (prepared to be wrong, here) that most OCR will work on pdfs, they seem to prefer image files, like jpg or bmp. Anyone else?? Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Able2DocPro. It can convert a PDF file of a clean printed document pretty well. I converted a 25 page document earlier this year using the trial version (one page at a time!) and then put them all together. It didn't need that much cleaning up, I was quite impressed. If I needed that doing much I'd buy that. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 How does it cope with boxed text areas and images? Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 I don't know JA - I was using it to just convert 1 PDF that was just text. Worked fine for that. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 K, thanks. Might give it a try sometime. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 OK so tried it out - works well. Cheers! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 13, 2008 Author Share Posted September 13, 2008 scouser - that one worked too. Nice one. (I still hope Liverpool lose tonight though) Link to post Share on other sites
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