http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3866 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Today's Giveaway - Sunday Sept 14/08 en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:52:57 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3866#post-41980 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:22:28 +0000 goodgotd 41980@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>those printer drivers that create 'pdf from any application' generally raster up image-only pdf's- that's why they're all over. and crappy. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3866#post-41975 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:09:15 +0000 Busy Lady 41975@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I didn't download the PDF to Word converter because I have the full version of Acrobat and it does this type of conversion handily.</p> <p>I do have some thoughts on why the PDF converted as an image. PDF files can be created using a variety of methods and can be saved with many settings. Don't even get me started on the differences in versions! Here are some things to consider.</p> <p> 1. The originator locked the document against selecting/editing. -- PDF to Word can't get to the content for conversion.<br /> 2. The original filetype was not directly compatible with converting to PDF. The print to PDF created an image. -- PDF to Word correctly converted the image.<br /> 3. The original filetype was created via a scanner. The scanner also created an image. -- PDF to Word correctly converted the image.</p> <p>Some of these can be corrected with Optical Character Recognition, others cannot.</p> <p>Acrobat is one of the applications I teach. You would be surprised at what I encounter. Most surprising (and frustrating) to my students is the differences in documents created by different users using their own (often uninformed) idea of the right tools and settings; by different methods (such as scanning); by different versions (hugh differences in possible functionality); and by different original files (again, hugh differences in possible functionality). Viewing a pdf will not inform you of the methods, settings, or options. One of the simplest applications I teach, and yet the one with the greatest inconsistencies.</p> <p>Hope that helps.<br /> BZ </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3866#post-41895 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:37:47 +0000 Lee 41895@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Well 'medstudz' it must be the .pdf document you converted.</p> <p>I have just tried one of the documents I converted and it edits fine in word 2003 PTS. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3866#post-41894 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:01:00 +0000 medstudz 41894@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I converted a pdf to word document using the software, pdf to word converter.<br /> It converted the document fine.<br /> However, it was saved like an image, i.e I was not<br /> able to edit the document.<br /> Could you help? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3866#post-41657 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:32:59 +0000 goodgotd 41657@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>there's also a post to get <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3863#post-41601">ABBYY PDF Transformer 1.0</a> to tide y'all over. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3866#post-41648 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:24:48 +0000 doxigrafix 41648@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thank you for posting that, Hoss. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3866#post-41646 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:26:07 +0000 HOSS 41646@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Copied from the "Project Team's Blog".</p> <p>September 14, 2008PDF-to-Word converter problem: giveaway will be restarted this week<br /> Hello everyone,<br /> Sorry for delay with this post, I am away from office and fast internet connection as well. PDF-to-Word problem is acknowledged and there will be a working software build available this week. Both we and the software publisher are sorry for this problem, and we will do our best to fix it asap.<br /> We had to do a giveaway switch since we couldn’t fix the package fast enough in the middle of a weekend.</p> <p>Yours,<br /> Slava<br /> GOTD team </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3866#post-41637 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:38:23 +0000 mindi141 41637@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>The link you posted </p> <p><a href="http://www.quick-pdf.com/pdf-to-word.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.quick-pdf.com/pdf-to-word.htm</a></p> <p> is only a 10 day free trial, after that you have to buy it. </p> <p>I also was a little annoyed with the change of download as the PDF to Word was certainly one I could use, and having no need for the NetStat Agent, I will be bypassing this one... </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3866#post-41634 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:23:00 +0000 hotdoge3 41634@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><a href="http://www.quick-pdf.com/pdf-to-word.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.quick-pdf.com/pdf-to-word.htm</a> my post on this,I see 3 posts on this so look like giveawayoftheday not try this to see if work? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3866#post-41633 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:15:35 +0000 doxigrafix 41633@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>One thing I have to say... I wish the good folks in charge of this place, instead of having the link say a flat "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria" would just post a brief explanation, like, due to circumstances beyond our control, bla bla, and here is a link to the giveaway we have substituted..." </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3866#post-41620 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:59:35 +0000 doxigrafix 41620@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for the link, whiskymac! I wondered what was going on. Thought I was losing my mind! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3866#post-41618 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:12:08 +0000 whiskymac 41618@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>It was only a trial version that was posted. Try this site, it's not perfect but with a little tweaking you get good Word documents.</p> <p><a href="http://www.hellopdf.com/download.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.hellopdf.com/download.php</a></p> <p>Ian. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3866#post-41611 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:19:00 +0000 gregergrape 41611@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Your right, it was there for about an hour and I had difficulties in doing more than three pages of conversion. I asked for help in the "comments" and found that I wasn't alone with only the trial version redistered to GOTD. I when and made some coffee and to see more and low and behold it was replaced with the Web Stat program....One of those mysteries of life...uhmmm. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3866#post-41610 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:11:38 +0000 loopygram 41610@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I received an email from GOTD this morning at 2:54 a.m. stating the GOTD software was PDF to Word Converter.<br /> This program would be very useful to me but when I clicked on the link, first of all it directed me to some weird page. I then clicked on GOTD at the top only to find out the giveway is NOT PDF to Word Converter.</p> <p>What's up with this??? Help please. </p>