| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name
 | Date | Lines | 
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| 2955.1 |  | TARKIN::LIN | Bill Lin | Wed Mar 19 1997 11:59 | 8 | 
|  |     re: NETRIX::"[email protected]"
    
    Tom,
    
    One reason people distribute PDF format is because it is not easily
    modified by the average end-user.
    
    /Bill
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| 2955.2 | Adobe makes a converter. BIG BUCKS! | JULIET::HARRIS_MA | Networks Sales Exec | Wed Mar 19 1997 12:35 | 5 | 
|  |     Adobe's high end PDF tools will do that. I think it's call Adobe
    Capture or Distiller or something like that. I think it's about
    $500-$600 for the software.
    
    Mark
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| 2955.3 |  | HELIX::WELLCOME | Steve Wellcome SHR3-1/C22 Pole A22 | Wed Mar 19 1997 12:50 | 8 | 
|  |     re: .2
    
    Adobe Distiller goes from .ps to .pdf, but not the other way
    and not to anything else...at least that's true of the version
    I'm running.
    
    Adobe Photoshop can convert a bunch of formats.  That might be
    worth checking into.
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| 2955.4 | Piece of cake... | SMURF::PBECK | Paul Beck | Wed Mar 19 1997 13:09 | 9 | 
|  |     It's real easy.
    
    (1) Print it.
    
    (2) Scan it in, using a high-quality OCR program like WordScan that
        can reproduce fonts and formatting for Word.
    
    I might have omitted step (1a -- drop $500 or so on a scanner that
    comes with WordScan...).
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| 2955.5 |  | NUBOAT::HEBERT | Captain Bligh | Wed Mar 19 1997 16:46 | 5 | 
|  | ...And for the record, we bought Adobe Acrobat V3.0 for about $176. It
contains the Reader, Exchange, Distiller, Capture, and Catalog (tools to
do various things with PS and PDF files).
Art
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| 2955.6 | Acrobat PRO | JULIET::HARRIS_MA | Networks Sales Exec | Thu Mar 20 1997 13:48 | 4 | 
|  |     I think it's Acrobat V3 Professional that does it... NOT the standard
    version.
    
    Mark
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