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Nahshon Evren · External Since: Jul 17, 2007 Posts: 10

.....in fact the text of these tables seems to be independent of the
lines of the table themselves - when I copy past the formatting is lost and
it's just a great big mess

!!!

help !

Nash

"Robert M. Franz · External Since: Jun 16, 2005 Posts: 983

Hi Nashon

Nahshon Evren wrote:
> ....in fact the text of these tables seems to be independent of the
> lines of the table themselves - when I copy past the formatting is lost and
> it's just a great big mess

please try to stay in the same thread.

What you describe seems to be the result of the converter. We cannot say
from here what it really does, but it might not even yield a real (Word)
table, but lines/boxes and some text.

If the tables are all _very_ uniform, one might be able to come up with
a programmatic solution. Otherwise, you probably need to rebuild them
manually. After all, PDF is never meant to be "consumed" by anything
other than a viewer or printer application.

HTH
Robert
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Nahshon Evren · External Since: Jul 17, 2007 Posts: 10

> please try to stay in the same thread.
>
> What you describe seems to be the result of the converter. We cannot say
> from here what it really does, but it might not even yield a real (Word)
> table, but lines/boxes and some text.
>
> If the tables are all _very_ uniform, one might be able to come up with a
> programmatic solution. Otherwise, you probably need to rebuild them
> manually. After all, PDF is never meant to be "consumed" by anything other
> than a viewer or printer application.
>
> HTH

Thanks for your advice; i'm amazed that no-one's come up with somthing
better than acrobat
or fine reader to automatically reset tables for example

N

"Robert M. Franz · External Since: Jun 16, 2005 Posts: 983

Nahshon Evren wrote:
[..]
> Thanks for your advice; i'm amazed that no-one's come up with somthing
> better than acrobat
> or fine reader to automatically reset tables for example

if you need to re-set tables in a document, get the original document
and work with them in whatever application they have been created. Once
any complex document is in PDF, rebuilding is often faster than tweaking
with the file there.

HTH
Robert
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Henk57 · External Since: Jul 30, 2007 Posts: 1

Nashron:
In Adobe Prof you can select the text AS TABLE. Then if you c/p into
Word it shd do a fairly well job. Robert M. Franz (RMF);2275891 Wrote:
> Nahshon Evren wrote:
> [..]-
> Thanks for your advice; i'm amazed that no-one's come up with somthing
>
> better than acrobat
> or fine reader to automatically reset tables for example-
>
> if you need to re-set tables in a document, get the original document
> and work with them in whatever application they have been created. Once
>
> any complex document is in PDF, rebuilding is often faster than
> tweaking
> with the file there.
>
> HTH
> Robert
> --
> /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS
> \ / | MVP
> X Against HTML | for
> / \ in e-mail & news | Word

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Henk57