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Re: XyWrite 4 - Customization Guide as TEXT File

There was a popular conversion website associated with a well-known software product (Nitro PDF ?), and I think it even had its own FireFox extension, but in my experience that site was always much too busy, and when it did answer a request the conversion attempt seldom worked at all.  So if the ones you mentioned are much better, I'm glad to learn of them. 

In most cases I would rather attempt the conversion on the local machine.  Unfortunately, there are a whole lot of PDF converters (to / from) and editors out there.  I've tried quite a few.  Some are even free.  Free or not, most of them that I've tried have serious limitations and are not very good. 


   Jordan


 
 
 
 
  
 From: Rick McElroy 
 To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
 Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2016 2:27 PM
 Subject: Re: XyWrite 4 - Customization Guide as TEXT File
  
 







Sorry Myron


 


It’s



 


not .org


 


Thanks again






 





Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2016 5:22 PM


To: 





GREAT IDEA & A SOLUTION TO MY PROBLEM!


Thank You.


 


I tried a number of online conversion sites:


 



converted pretty well to .doc (not .rtf)


Tables are much better than in the txt file.


 


It had problems with quotes, dashes and a few things



but all in all it looks manageable.


 


Here are some screen shots


                                         
PDF
FILE                                                                                       

CONVERTED to .doc


pdf2doc comparison - Original PDF File - 2pdf2doc comparison - by PDF2DOC-com - 2


 


Some text in the tables was reduced from 12 pt to 5
point


but in Word when I enlarged it to 500% It seemed like the data
was correct.


It just needs to be changed back to 12 pt again.


 


Your idea makes things a lot easier for me.


Any problems I find with corrupted data probably can be
fixed


by just copying & pasting from the pdf to the doc file in
most cases.


(eliminating that dreaded proofreading)


 


A really big advantage to converting to Word doc is the
viewing of the text.


It is much clearer and sharper than I saw when viewing the txt
file.


Of course I never thought about it till now but


I was viewing it in Editpad not Word.


 


I just now tried the txt file in Word


The line breaks are all messed up and it is not as
easy


to read as the doc file.


 


I would have never imagined that!


 


Utube video on this was great on these 2
sites:



 



 



You can edit pdf, rotate, reorder, append pdfs 


BUT IS ONLY FREE UNDER 100 PAGES


 


google drive


could not convert the CUSTOMIZATION GUIDE from pdf 2
doc


 


Thanks a million for your help


and so quickly too.


 


All my best,


Rick






 





Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2016 2:20 PM


To: What happens if you export it as an RTF, Word or HTML file?  One of
those might get you past the specific problem(s) you’re encountering.




Myron








 

 

 

 

 

 
Hi

 
 

 
I am hoping to find a copy of the

 
XyWrite 4 - Customization Guide as a TEXT File.

 
 

 
I have the pdf version and have converted it to a text file
 with a number of programs.

 
 

 
All the text files have problems converting the Default
 & Function Call lists sections

 
of the Customization Guide.