Converting a PDF file to a Word file

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Hiya all,

My Brother has got an application form he needs to fill in and email back but the file is a .PDF file.

I dont know how to edit a PDF file so I dont know how he can fill it in without converting it to a word document but we dont know how to do that either.

Any help would be much appreciated as he needs to send this off ASAP.

Here is the file:

JOBAPPLICATION

Cheers all,

G
 
Funnily enough I had to do this today to a 498 page catalogue, and I'll let you know that freeware applications don't do the best job on things like this you still need to do a bit of editing. But a quick google of "pdf to doc" should help you. :)

edit: seen as you're sending it off - wouldn't they want it via post, printed out?
 
my friend uses primopdf and its suprisingly good - for some conversions its actually given better results than acrobat professional (strange but true)

i think i read the op wrong - primopdf only converts TO pdf and not FROM, sorry.
 
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RandomTom said:
Funnily enough I had to do this today to a 498 page catalogue, and I'll let you know that freeware applications don't do the best job on things like this you still need to do a bit of editing. But a quick google of "pdf to doc" should help you. :)

edit: seen as you're sending it off - wouldn't they want it via post, printed out?
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he said he's sending it Via email mate so they can get it as soon as poss.

What program did you use and did it keep the formatting?

I have a program called veryPDF but I can't figure the damn thing out and it doesnt save as a word doc anyways.

Don't mind buying a bit of software as this isn't the 1st time this has come up for me.

Did your conversion go well?

My msn is in trust and I'm online for a while now if you are able to help :)
 
Guru said:
What program did you use and did it keep the formatting?

Did your conversion go well?
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Hi, I can't really offer anything more than just saying for text it worked fine so for your letter and application it should work well, but I found that for table and image based documentation it was awfully clunky and badly made up of shapes and sections for somethings.

I can't remember the program I used unfortunately but most of the formatting in the text remained constant, It would take me a week or so to get the catalogue ready for use though (it was intended for a conversion to html files for indexing on a website I'd make but :eek: !!!)

:)
 
If you have access to a) a UNIX-esque box (even cygwin) and Adobe Illustrator you could do pdf2ps to convert it from pdf to postscript format and then edit it from in Illustrator.

Personally I find Acrobat a PITA, as it's only really useful for adding comments/annotations to existing pdf documents and not as a full WYSIWYG editor. Of course one of pdf's selling points is that it isnt easy to manipulate so files arent easily tampered with, an important consideration when hosting files online.
 
Loft said:
Not 100% sure, but wouldn't OpenOffice do this?
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I think you are thinking about saving a Word file to PDF? The OP wants to convert a PDF file to a Word document file. The reverse of what I think you are talking about.
 
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