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Fred Dungan
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1249
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 12:21 pm: |   |
PDF is the Adobe Acrobat file that PublishAmerica creates from the digital text sent to them by their writers prior to going to print. It turns out that all POD publishers employ ghost scripted PDF in one form or another. Converting from Word to PDF, however, is no easy matter if you need it to come out line by line and page by page - the problem being that once the text is in PDF, it is pretty much set in stone.
I have been trying for weeks to turn Word into PDF and keep the page numbers the same throughout a 200+ page manuscript. Can it be done? If not, how do you go about making an accurate Table of Contents? Is there any way to swap word, lines, and pages in PDF or am I stuck with what I get?
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Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
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Post Number:
2380
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 12:42 pm: | |
don't have a clue Fred, but that is what the problem was with the initial editing that PA did to my MS when it was sent to them. They (PA) said that changing the Word file to PDF created all the errors in my MS that were put into it and there when they returned it to me. When I went through the errors one by one, and sent back the revisions, Pinky (my then editor at PA) was able to clean it all up. Don't have the faintest clue as to how she did it, but, possibly if you could go through it all that way and re-edit it all over again, and be able to get it straight. May be worth a thought.
LaurieAnne might be able to help you with a conversion idea, as I am sure she deals with that sort of problem in her work at the paper or with her publishing co. Or Kevin Grover or Todd or Bill or John or maybe..... CE might kow the answer to your problem.
Claudia
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Pacwriter
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2101
Registered: 04-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 01:11 pm: | |
If you have a version of adobe that will save a pdf file as a word file, you can edit and change it anyway you want. Pages can be re-formatted with no effort.
I use Adobe professional 6.
If anyone would like their books in WORD format, just send me the file and I'll convert it for you and send it back
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Todd Hunter
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Post Number:
2819
Registered: 02-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 02:05 pm: | |
PDF995
This one works quite well when transferring from Word to PDF, and is free.
It's what I use for all my PDF conversions from Windows products that print.
There are some fonts that give it a little trouble (in regards to spacing between characters and/or troubles with apostrophes), but when I use arial, it always seems to work okay for me.
If it doesn't work the first time, make some edits to the original document, convert it again, and overwrite the first try...
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LA
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Post Number:
2123
Registered: 12-2001
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 07:33 pm: | |
Fred,
If you have Acrobat available, and have the distiller installed, it is really just as simple as printing to your distiller rather than printing to a printer. The distiller can be used as a printer for the purposes of creating a PDF from any document. This comes in extremely handy in the paper office when someone sends ad copy they put together using word, and we cannot separate the text from the art. By making it a PDF, we can then open it inside Adobe Photoshop and crop it into sections.
On another technical note: Todd, I've been doing some checking, and as soon as my modem is up and running again, I have found a couple of PHP editors that can be used to edit in 30 different programming languages (including java, css, c++, perl, php, html, xhtml, etc etc etc). Once I make sure they are decent enough, I'll let you know what the link is. (The one's I'm looking at all happen to be wonderful little freebies...the best kind there are.)
LA
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