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<title><![CDATA[By: oldgittom]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdfzilla/#comment-76507</link>
<description><![CDATA[Another dud PDF converter: this one just converts half a file. It even screwed that up - couldn't handle Word formatting, &amp; delivered blocks of text in 'frames', so you cannot correct easily. A free waste of time. OGT]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:49:54 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Tom]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdfzilla/#comment-76506</link>
<description><![CDATA[I will advise people to watch out for the 'bloating' some have mentioned.  I converted a 42k pdf to Word, and got a 5.9M doc file.
If I had emailed that to anyone, it would have been embarrassing.

A fix is easy though.  In Word, select all, copy to clipboard, open new document and insert it.  I did that with the 5.9M file, and got a 42K Word doc as a result.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:55:05 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Tom]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdfzilla/#comment-76505</link>
<description><![CDATA[I can recommend this, but with a few caveats.  This is because I use a somewhat nonstandard setup, and so PDFZilla's quirks have had to be dealt with.  However, I have worked around them, and will be using it a lot for this need.

(That said, then, I'll be sending these comments to PDFZilla.com as well, with a big thank you to them and to GAOTD.)

1) I have a PDF document that I generate from TeX, or more specifically, LaTeX.  I want to make a DOC that I view with Word 97.

This causes problems, and I think it is because both the TeX and the old Word are not what PDFZilla's creators programmed against.  Okay, that happens.  I decided to work with it.

2) PDFZilla, in this case, takes a good looking PDF, and makes a DOC, but the result is not automatically good.  The biggest problem seems to be the bold and italic attributes -- PDFZilla seems to decide they are related to size.  So my resulting DOC file has the 12 point headings either shrunk to 6.5 point, or blown up to 20.5 point.

As it happens, though, I can do without bold and italic in the DOC.  I  adjusted my code so I can use them elsewhere, but for the DOC, I don't use them, and it made the results look much much better.

3.  There are some other minor annoyances, but I found them easier to live with.  The "ff" and "fi" ligatures, PDFZilla converted to the digits "8" and "9", respectively.  Some apostrophes were converted to cedillas.  That sort of thing.  This takes loess than a minute to tweak up.

So I have succeeded in getting what I want.  I first generate a temporary PDF, one from which PDFZilla reliably produces my good looking DOC, and I quickly tweak it.  Then I rerun my app and make the 
good looking, permanent PDF that I want to keep.

For you, just keep in mind that TeX documents, or old Word software, may need extra care, and certainly proofread any DOC that has to be in good condition.

Thanks again GAOTD.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:58:21 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Joedacris]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdfzilla/#comment-76504</link>
<description><![CDATA[I tried cracking a pdf with it and it worked.  Thanks GAOTD!]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:52:27 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Alan]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdfzilla/#comment-76503</link>
<description><![CDATA[Excellent product.! PDFZilla successfully converted a fully encrypted AND protected file into fully editable text. This helped me extract passages for use in a reference document (with acknowledgments) that I could not achieve by page extract method using the fully fledged Acrobat 9.0 Pro edition.
Thanks to GAOTD for this freebie - I would BUY if ever the need arises.!!]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:30:39 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: SteelTrap]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdfzilla/#comment-76502</link>
<description><![CDATA[I just ran one more test:  Conversion to JPEG image.

Results were much better in three  of the four cases.

The two OOW files and the FM file with the text at odd angles all came out looking just right.

Unhappily, 'Zilla still didn't know what to do with the dingbat-fonts in the other the FM file.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:07:11 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: SteelTrap]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdfzilla/#comment-76501</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a word:  Lame.

Installation defaults to C: drive; browse to installation location does not include "Make Folder", so had to stop, make folder by other means, then re-specify.  Browse didn't start with directory currently in selector but went back to beginning.  Did get it into where I wanted, though, without too much annoyance.

Interface is pretty nice, except for one glaring flaw:  Browsing for destination.  Again, when there is already something in the selector, a new browse ought to start with that directory; instead, it goes back to the root drive, requiring re-selecting the entire path.  A tad annoying when all you want is a sibling directory to the one last used.

Tried it with four test files -- two admittedly tricky.  None were made from MS-Word.  Two were made with OpenOffice Writer, the same document -- just plain formatted text -- except one had a graphic added.  The two tricky ones were made with FrameMaker (a long time ago), originally saved as PS and recently converted to PDF by GhostScript.  The GS conversion was pixel-perfect for both of these, and Adobe Reader displays them just the way I intended.

Conversion to DOC:
    The two OOW files:  It made a difference when, the second time through, I set the "Word XP Compatible" option to "NO".  Better, but text was still clustered in boxes.  Inconvenient at best...
    The two FM files:  One of them incorporated text at odd angles.  'Zilla was completely clueless about what to do with that.  Other one used dingbat-fonts; again, 'Zilla didn't know what to do.

Conversion to HTML:
   Generated HTML that FireFox rejected:  "Couldn't recognize C:/ as a protocol".  IExp did not have that problem.
  The results for the two FM files were similar to the DOC conversion:  Didn't handle angled text or dingbat-fonts, otherwise Almost-But-Not-Quite right, correctable with sopme editing by hand.
 The big surprise came with the two OOW files:  they displayed as complete gibberish; old DOS-style angle-pictures instead of text.  VERY odd...

Conversion to text:
I compared against the text conversion done by Adobe Reader.  The two OOW files were formatted more accurately by Adobe.  The two FM files were not well-handled by either; 'Zilla had a slight edge.

I did not try the other formats.

For fairness' sake, let me add that I've tried other free PDF converters against the "tricky" FM files, and they did not perform any better.

I'm still looking for an "all that" PDF converter.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:54:05 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Abhijeet Deshpande]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdfzilla/#comment-76500</link>
<description><![CDATA[i have tried pdfzilla on pictures.i.e. converted a bmp to a pdf and then reconverted the same into all the formats of pdfzilla . the pics did not show on it. 
yet for people who cannot afford to buy adobe and all people strapped for cash........


Very Good ,

On a scale of 1 to 10. I would rate it as a 7. 3 simply coz they have not bundled a few things in it. and it shows. 
but mostly good. simple compact efficient for people who want its use for small things at office like ppts and such. not for large scale ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:45:55 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: MennJiJo]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdfzilla/#comment-76499</link>
<description><![CDATA[I am running WinXP SP3.  The program installed fine, registered fine, but the upper right hand buttons did not align well with the cursor when selected.  The cursor had to be a little below those buttons to activate the function.  The major large buttons on the left were fine.  Then closing the program was attempted.  It would not close from the 'X' button.  The Program Mgr had to be used to close the program.  Uninstalled, and reinstalled PDFZilla again, and again, had the same problems with button activation and closing the program.  That was enough to remove the program from archive and delete the installation.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:15:11 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Dickson]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdfzilla/#comment-76498</link>
<description><![CDATA[We ve fixed the Big DPI screen solution bug

AND

Windows 98 Dll bug


Users can download it here:
<a href="http://www.pdfzilla.com/down/pdfzilla.exe" rel="nofollow">http://www.pdfzilla.com/down/pdfzilla.exe</a>

OR

<a href="http://www.pdfzilla.com/download.html" rel="nofollow">PDFZilla Download Page</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:07:28 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dickson]]></dc:creator>
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