Bryanna
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944 posts
Apr 27, 2005
6:42 AM
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I have posted this on the "Vegan Feast Newsletter" page (exchange between Trilby and Kourtney, below):
Converting a PDF file to a text file in order to save separate recipes in a recipe file, etc.
Question from Subscriber#1: " I have a question, though. I have been saving recipes from past newsletters to a recipe file I have started on my computer so I can find what I want more easily, or just to see what I have in a certain catagory. Sometimes I save the pictures, and sometimes I don't. However, I cannot figure out how to copy recipes from the pfd format to get them into a word file. Does anyone know how to do this? Just when I think I have my computer figured out, I discover one more thing I don't know how to do!"
Answer from Subscriber #2: "Open the file in Adobe Reader and choose File>Save as Text. It won't save the images, but you'll be able to open the recipes in Word."
Note from Bryanna: The ability to do this might depend on the edition of Microsoft Word that you have. I could not do this on a computer with an older edition of Word. On my home computer, I have Word in Office XP, and I could do that. However, I had to save it as an .rtf file-- Rich Text Format. When it is converted, you will have to get rid of the bold type (I did the whole PDF file in bold because it was printing too light in regular font), put in spaces between paragraphs, etc., insert page breaks and get rid of the headers and page numbers, which will be in the wrong places, and the photo captions, if any (no photos will be included).
But you WILL be able to copy and paste a particular recipe into another file, if you wish.
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"To look like a goddess, eat like a peasant." Karen Andres
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