Author Topic: Converting Gears from PDF into something editable. (Read 4235 times)

halkun · « **on:** 2005-03-06 03:02:20 »

Hi, as you guys know, I only have a PDF version of Gears, but I need it converted into something I can edit. Could you help me?

Here Is the PDF version of gears. If anyone has acrobat, could you save that as a Postscript (.PS) file or some kind of word prossessng document to I can edit it again? (Actually, I need the pictures out of it)

Thanks. PM me if you someone did it.

Aaron · « **Reply #1 on:** 2005-03-06 04:27:21 »

I got it. (Check your PM)

halkun · « **Reply #2 on:** 2005-03-06 22:50:33 »

I got it, but it seems that all I can do it convert a PS file back into a PDF or print it. (That's self-defeating!) What exactly can you export a PDF into using acrobat? Can you turn it into a RTF with tables? How about HTML? I'm looking for something that can make the tables editable. Can you export into Microsoft DOC format?

Aaron · « **Reply #3 on:** 2005-03-07 00:38:09 »

I exported a Word file and an HTML file, same link as before, uploading now...

(It did a better job than I thought it would with the Word file, but not quite perfect.

The HTML file is workable.)

halkun · « **Reply #4 on:** 2005-03-07 04:05:58 »

Thank You! You are a life saver! you have helped me more than I can tell you. (No, seriously, I'm not allowed to tell you.) But this will make my life so much easier. It's nice to have all the dependancies extracted from the PDF. I can now reconstuct Gears back into XML, which was it's original format.

Thanks again.

Micky · « **Reply #5 on:** 2005-03-07 20:18:53 »

Just for future reference: both PS and PDF store the drawing instructions for a document, and are not really comparable to something like DOC. You can still extract the data, for example there are some utilities that use Ghostscript to parse a PDF or PS file and then reconstruct the text from the result.