Being one of Australia's "brilliant", but, as yet, undiscovered writers, a friend put a PDF (?) on one of my books.
How do I remove it, please.
I need to add to "When CO-ORD was King". This book is of my time on roadtrains in the NT, Qld. and WA.
Regards.
Pipes
Muzzlehatch said
02:15 PM Sep 7, 2017
I am usualy fairly good at that sort of thing. Can you clarify what you mean? Are you saying they converted your text file to a PDF and now you want to edit it ?
pipes said
05:48 PM Sep 7, 2017
I like writing books. But with a PDF, I am unable to add anymore stories. The PDF, whatever it is prevents any more work.
Pipes
blaze said
05:59 PM Sep 7, 2017
resave as a word doc, open file and go to save as and choose word doc from the file type selection
cheers
blazze
JeffRae said
08:39 PM Sep 7, 2017
Pipes "your friend" should still have the original file you created. To save as a PDF (portable document format) he would have used "save as" which would have left your original copy untouched Not really sure if you can save a PDF as a word document with Adobe Reader, but you can with a full version of Adobe Acrobat Have sent you a PM pipes
JeffRae
Muzzlehatch said
11:26 PM Sep 7, 2017
Definitely who ever did the >PDF conversion should have left you with a text version. txt to PDF is a bit like a prawn in the barbeque ... you cant "uncook it" . Well not easily any how.
PeterD said
11:02 PM Sep 8, 2017
JeffRae wrote:
Not really sure if you can save a PDF as a word document with Adobe Reader, but you can with a full version of Adobe Acrobat
No you can not edit with a reader. If you are going to stick to Adobe software you will need to purchase the Adobe suit.
Pipes, did your friend save the PDF file with a password. If not then it is able to be edited. There are plenty of free PDF software. Here is a list of PDF software. Read through this and try some of the freebies.
I note both LibreOffice and OpenOffice have the capability to possible do the job you require. I would suggest starting with LibreOffice as it is more developed than OpenOffice. Once you have converted the book into a word processor document I suggest you do your editing in LibreOffice Writer. When you have finished the editing save the document as a word processor file. Then also save it as a PDF file. Use the PDF file as the copy you will share. Doing things that way will maintain control of your original document as well as sharing it in a format that others can
PeterD said
11:08 PM Sep 8, 2017
Pipes, further to what I said above, in the link I provided you will see free software that you can use like a word processor. You can create documents, save them for distribution and amend them at a future date in that software.
toglhot said
10:48 AM Sep 9, 2017
Use a converter to convert it to whatever you like. Converters are avaiable free on the internet, do a search 'free PDF to ??? converter'.
JeffRae said
07:35 PM Sep 11, 2017
Did you get this sorted @pipes
Cupie said
10:36 PM Sep 11, 2017
Hi Pipes ..
I certainly enjoyed reading the stories that you sent me a few years ago.
RE the inability to modify the PDF files.
I recently downloaded a free program that is supposed to allow you to do this. (Able Word)
I haven't used it yet but it looks as though it opens the 'PDF' file as a word doc' or similar & away you go.
Here's link to Able Word that can write to PDF files
Being one of Australia's "brilliant", but, as yet, undiscovered writers, a friend put a PDF (?) on one of my books.
How do I remove it, please.
I need to add to "When CO-ORD was King". This book is of my time on roadtrains in the NT, Qld. and WA.
Regards.
Pipes
I am usualy fairly good at that sort of thing. Can you clarify what you mean? Are you saying they converted your text file to a PDF and now you want to edit it ?
Pipes
cheers
blazze
Pipes "your friend" should still have the original file you created. To save as a PDF (portable document format) he would have used "save as" which would have left your original copy untouched
Not really sure if you can save a PDF as a word document with Adobe Reader, but you can with a full version of Adobe Acrobat
Have sent you a PM pipes
JeffRae
Definitely who ever did the >PDF conversion should have left you with a text version. txt to PDF is a bit like a prawn in the barbeque ... you cant "uncook it" . Well not easily any how.
No you can not edit with a reader. If you are going to stick to Adobe software you will need to purchase the Adobe suit.
Pipes, did your friend save the PDF file with a password. If not then it is able to be edited. There are plenty of free PDF software. Here is a list of PDF software. Read through this and try some of the freebies.
I note both LibreOffice and OpenOffice have the capability to possible do the job you require. I would suggest starting with LibreOffice as it is more developed than OpenOffice. Once you have converted the book into a word processor document I suggest you do your editing in LibreOffice Writer. When you have finished the editing save the document as a word processor file. Then also save it as a PDF file. Use the PDF file as the copy you will share. Doing things that way will maintain control of your original document as well as sharing it in a format that others can
Hi Pipes ..
I certainly enjoyed reading the stories that you sent me a few years ago.
RE the inability to modify the PDF files.
I recently downloaded a free program that is supposed to allow you to do this. (Able Word)
I haven't used it yet but it looks as though it opens the 'PDF' file as a word doc' or similar & away you go.
Here's link to Able Word that can write to PDF files
http://www.ableword.net/
-- Edited by Cupie on Monday 11th of September 2017 10:37:07 PM
-- Edited by Cupie on Tuesday 12th of September 2017 01:41:33 PM