Tony Alfrey wrote:
D. McGarrett wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Wednesday 27 August 2008 15:20, Donald D Henson wrote:
Does anyone know of an open source application that will convert PDF into something more useful.
Can you characterize "more useful?"
PDF can be converted to PostScript, obviously, which could be considered to have more utility. And it can clearly be converted to, say, HP PCL, since that happens whenever printing to a printer that uses that language.
Anyway, I don't think there are many other formats that really do what PDF does, so I can't think of a useful conversion.
Why do you want to convert from PDF to something else (something non-specific)?
Any leads appreciated.
Randall Schulz
A friend of mine publishes a newsletter using a Mac, and he would very much like an open source pdfto... so he can edit the text. I know this is OT, but there are experts out there!
I don't understand why your friend would not compose/edit such a newsletter using a conventional word processor or even Macintosh Page and only at the end, when posting to a server (where a link is called from an html page or whatever), would one convert to .pdf? In other words, edit in the word processor or composer. Think of .pdf as a printer: print to paper or print to .pdf file.
--doug
He's been doing it his way for years and is afraid of change. -- Don Henson