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Subject:Re: TECHWR-L Digest - 19 Aug 1998 to 20 Aug 1998 From:pat burrows <pburrows -at- GNLP -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 21 Aug 1998 16:39:27 +0000
Hi!
I'm new to the list so I don't know if this problem has been discussed.
I'm working in PageMaker on a manual that has several examples of
reports generated in UNIX. We have tried several ways to convert the
reports for placement into PageMaker but always loose the formatting.
The best we have been able to do is copy and paste the text from a PDF
file that the software engineer generates and reformat it in Page; but
then I spend hours setting new tabs, margins, etc. We have tried
screen shots and scanning the reports both as a TIF file and OCR but
none of these methods produce a clear image. Any suggestions??
