[senit] converting PDF files

Hi Alice

You can actually cut and paste text from pdf files (e.g into MS Word) but
you lose all formatting and usually all the diagrams.

May or may not be appropriate in this instance?

Claire Barnes
Willow Dene School

-----Original Message-----
From: Alice Chenneour Randall [mailto:alice.chenneour at btinternet.com] 
Sent: 10 January 2008 21:54
To: aph at misnet.co.uk; senit at lists.becta.org.uk
Subject: RE: [senit] converting PDF files

We need to prepare material in braille using transcription software, remove
shaded text unwanted diagrams etc.
  Alice

Alex Hammerstein <aph at misnet.co.uk> wrote:
  The idea behind pdf files is that they CANT be changed.

How do you want to manipulate the material?

Alex

-----Original Message-----
From: senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Alice Chenneour
Randall
Sent: 10 January 2008 20:45
To: senit
Subject: [senit] converting PDF files

I'm sorry that this might appear obvious to all you technical wizards out
there - we are a VI service and have been relatively fortunate in recieving
the PDF files of a number of text books, dierctly from the publishers. The
difficulty is that we are having no success in converting these files into a
format that allows us to manipulate the material. Any help would be very
welcome.
Many thanks
Alice Chenneour Randall
Oxfordshire VISS