Wednesday, August 5, 2009

PDF-to-Word technology Must Not......

  • Use tabs to force tabulated information into a proper layout. Wherever possible, re-build the table from scratch to ensure the best layout and editability.
  • Left align all text. Use the correct left, right, center, and justify text alignment tools.
  • Use line breaks to force text onto the next line, or text boxes to force blocks of text into position. Keep paragraphs editable and part of the on-page content.
  • Merge text and images. Some PDF-to-Word converters unnecessarily merge images and text during conversion to try to produce better-looking output files.
  • Ignore header and footer content and reformat it as a normal line of text on the page. Wherever possible, Detect headers and footers and recreate them using Microsoft Word’s Header and Footer tools.