loopygram
Member
I received an email from GOTD this morning at 2:54 a.m. stating the GOTD software was PDF to Word Converter.
This program would be very useful to me but when I clicked on the link, first of all it directed me to some weird page. I then clicked on GOTD at the top only to find out the giveway is NOT PDF to Word Converter.
What's up with this??? Help please.
gregergrape
Member
Your right, it was there for about an hour and I had difficulties in doing more than three pages of conversion. I asked for help in the "comments" and found that I wasn't alone with only the trial version redistered to GOTD. I when and made some coffee and to see more and low and behold it was replaced with the Web Stat program....One of those mysteries of life...uhmmm.
whiskymac
Member
It was only a trial version that was posted. Try this site, it's not perfect but with a little tweaking you get good Word documents.
http://www.hellopdf.com/download.php
Ian.
doxigrafix
Member
Thanks for the link, whiskymac! I wondered what was going on. Thought I was losing my mind!
doxigrafix
Member
One thing I have to say... I wish the good folks in charge of this place, instead of having the link say a flat "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria" would just post a brief explanation, like, due to circumstances beyond our control, bla bla, and here is a link to the giveaway we have substituted..."
Anonymous
Unregistered
http://www.quick-pdf.com/pdf-to-word.htm my post on this,I see 3 posts on this so look like giveawayoftheday not try this to see if work?
mindi141
Member
The link you posted
http://www.quick-pdf.com/pdf-to-word.htm
is only a 10 day free trial, after that you have to buy it.
I also was a little annoyed with the change of download as the PDF to Word was certainly one I could use, and having no need for the NetStat Agent, I will be bypassing this one...
Copied from the "Project Team's Blog".
September 14, 2008PDF-to-Word converter problem: giveaway will be restarted this week
Hello everyone,
Sorry for delay with this post, I am away from office and fast internet connection as well. PDF-to-Word problem is acknowledged and there will be a working software build available this week. Both we and the software publisher are sorry for this problem, and we will do our best to fix it asap.
We had to do a giveaway switch since we couldn’t fix the package fast enough in the middle of a weekend.
Yours,
Slava
GOTD team
doxigrafix
Member
Thank you for posting that, Hoss.
goodgotd
Member
there's also a post to get ABBYY PDF Transformer 1.0 to tide y'all over.
Busy Lady
Member
I didn't download the PDF to Word converter because I have the full version of Acrobat and it does this type of conversion handily.
I do have some thoughts on why the PDF converted as an image. PDF files can be created using a variety of methods and can be saved with many settings. Don't even get me started on the differences in versions! Here are some things to consider.
1. The originator locked the document against selecting/editing. -- PDF to Word can't get to the content for conversion.
2. The original filetype was not directly compatible with converting to PDF. The print to PDF created an image. -- PDF to Word correctly converted the image.
3. The original filetype was created via a scanner. The scanner also created an image. -- PDF to Word correctly converted the image.
Some of these can be corrected with Optical Character Recognition, others cannot.
Acrobat is one of the applications I teach. You would be surprised at what I encounter. Most surprising (and frustrating) to my students is the differences in documents created by different users using their own (often uninformed) idea of the right tools and settings; by different methods (such as scanning); by different versions (hugh differences in possible functionality); and by different original files (again, hugh differences in possible functionality). Viewing a pdf will not inform you of the methods, settings, or options. One of the simplest applications I teach, and yet the one with the greatest inconsistencies.
Hope that helps.
BZ
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