Converting the dreaded PDF

[hcanders]

What's the best way to convert a PDF so it can be imported to cheif. I get My title 24(energy Calcs) from an online source and He sends them in PDF format. I've used adobe ilistrator opened file and saved as PNG but it looks terrible. I also tried the same in corel draw a little better but still illedgible any help would be greatly appretiated even thought I misspelled it!

Hans

[ARCHIJEF2000]

Have you tried saving as a Word document.

[lbuttery]

Why import into Chief ?

Create your layout in Chief and print to PDF

Then use PDFEDIT995 (it's free) to merge the two PDF's into one
new MASTER PDF. You can even re-order pages as you do it.

Lew

[George Godwin]

Have you tried saving as a Word document.

I believe that you need a robust PDF program like Adobe Acrobat Pro to convert a PDF to a Word document assuming that the original was prepared in a text document prior to PDF creation and was not a scanned image of a document.

Lew, - Can you merge a letter size PDF onto say a 24x36 ARCH D pdf and move it around on the larger page? Or are you referring to adding say a letter size page to a larger Layout set of pages?

Another suggestion that I can make is to save the PDF as an image file (I generally save as a .tif file), size it to at least 150 dpi (300 dpi is better) in an image program with good contrast and sharpness, then use an OCR program like OmniPage pro to convert it to text and then import the text.

[Tim O'Donnell]

if it is text..why not simply copy/paste(the reader allows you to select text) into a chief text box?

[lbuttery]

George:

PDF995EDIT can take pages from PDF A and merge them with pages from PDF B in any order, but I have only used it with PDF's of the same size 18 x 24 so far.

Lew