PDF FILE TO MS WORD DOC

[Rebecca]

Greetings. This is a question for the graphics experts. When I save a PDF
file (say 25 megs) as a MS WORD doc (I scanned parts of a book into a PDF
file using Acrobat 7.0), the MS WORD file opens with the pages as graphics.
What is most astonishing is that the resultant MS WORD file is so small. It
is so small that I thought the figures in properties was a miscalculation of
the file size. How does MS WORD do this? Even if I scanned the pages as low
resolution jpegs, I still would not come near to the small sizes of these MS
WORD files.

 

[macropod]

hi Rebecca,

The size of the PDF will depend on what graphics options, in particular, it
was created with.

The Word file will at mots only have images of those pages at whatever
resolution they were scanned. If you inserted the images as links, they
won't even be in the Word file - just a pointer to them - and that would
make for a very small Word file.

Cheers