ScanSoft PDF CONVERTER STANDARD 3 - GUIDE, Online Help Manual

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Introduction
Portable Document Format was introduced to publish documents across
computing platforms with a high-fidelity "as is" appearance. The ScanSoft PDF
Converter unlocks the content of PDF files, allowing large-scale editing and
reformatting to be done in Microsoft Word or other target applications. The
converter is designed to replicate the original PDF pages as closely as possible,
keeping columns, titles, pictures and framed elements as they were. To do this ,
the converter has to explore and interpret the logical relationships and structures
used to store the document’s formatting in the PDF format.
PDF Converter opens PDF file versions from 1.0 to 1.6.
Note: ScanSoft PDF Converter 3 is designed to unlock PDF files; it does not
convert documents to the PDF format. The sister product, ScanSoft PDF Create!
3 performs this task.
PDF Converter has two main dialog boxes:
PDF Converter Assistant
This lets you start conversions, giving you a preview of the PDF file to be
converted and providing control over the process.
PDF Converter Settings
This can be called from the Tools menu of Microsoft Word, Excel, or
WordPerfect. When called from Word, it lets you choose whether to use
the PDF Converter Assistant or not for future conversions started from the
Microsoft Word Open dialog box. It also provides access to other settings.
PDF Converter distinguishes three types of PDF conversions:
Document , Form and Spreadsheet conversions.
You must specify before starting which type of conversion you want, because
PDF Converter uses different algorithms for each. When you use the
PDF
Converter Assistant , specify this in its first panel ( Preview ). If you dismiss the
Assistant (in the File Open Settings panel of the PDF Converter Settings dialog
box), you must specify whether future one-click processing will be converting
PDF files as documents or forms. Your settings are stored separately for each
type of conversion.