Re: changing a pdf file to doc or other word processing file

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From: Gerald E. Boyd
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 00:00

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At 04:10 PM 4/16/1999 -0400, Valerie G. Rankow wrote the following:

>I really hope this is not a stupid question (we librarians know there
are no
>stupid questions, only clueless people).
>
>My problem: the form for job applicants to fill out in advance, to
send to
>the Placement Center at the annual MLA conference, is in adobe acrobat
>format, .pdf and I can't seem to save it in any form to which I can then
>write. I have no scanner, so I can't print out the sucker and then
scan it
>in and save it as a .doc file. I have tried to convert it, but I have
joined
>the clueless. Bummer.

Here are a couple of things for you to do.
1) Use Ghostscipt to print it or convert to another raster format you
can handle. This is a great program. See it at:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/aladdin/

2) Visit the PDFzone and grab a program that will allow to do whatever
you want to do.
http://www.pdfzone.com/
Document and conversion tools are here:
http://www.pdfzone.com/products/software/toolinfo_convert.asp


--
Gerry Boyd -- gboyd@netcom.com

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