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Just to clarify. I don't want them to be able to edit. They will get even more lax about their submissions. Submission deadline is Thursday for Saturday print ready. Sometimes I get things as late as Saturday night. It is all volunteer so I don't say anything. I don't really mind. Some things are submitted by very tired elderly people. Sometimes they forget to send me stuff at all. I just prepare what they send me. If they forget? Oh well. If I chase everyone for their submissions they will get disgruntled about that.
So tell me how many ways I cannot turn Adobe into Microsoft.
As Rich says it CAN be done...but in my experience these converters only work with straightforward layouts. If there are any images, graphics or text wrap conditions the converters tend to miss these and scramble. This then needs messy editing in the new software. I have no experience of this one that Rich mentions...it MAY be better.
Like Robert says, if its just text, you can copy and paste it into your own Word document and circulate that.
But I have had many such requests from clients over the years.
You just have to muscle it out and tell them it cant be done...you are the boss!
Now the bit you dont want to read....
If you have Acrobat Professional you can save pdf files to Word documents. BUT they tend not to be editable.
You can save them as .TXT files but this drops all pictures and text formatting.
The recipient could edit the text files in Word and email it back to you. You could then copy/paste the corrections back into Indesign and reoutput the pdf.
Edit
Just saved a brochure page from Acrobat Pro to a Word document and I got an 'image' file of the whole page (left below).
Saving it as a TXT file I got the text (right below)
Attachment: sigma_0113 PROOF-1.jpg (Downloaded 46 times)
Last edited on Sun Jan 13th, 2013 20:03 by Eric
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