PDF files not opening within Word

[George M. Cuen]

When I open Word, then: File/open/documents/ filename.pdf/open.. The
Convert File opens, giving me options such as, Text only, MS-Dos test, RTF,
MS Excel Worksheet. None of these choices work. Either it creates an error
or Word opens this document as a bunch of gibberish.

The only way I can open pdf files is outside of Word. I have to get out of
Word, open Documents, then open the pdf file with Adobe. This is
inconvenient.

In Windows Word I was able to open pdf using adoble, from within Word. Is
there a way to put in an option, to open up a pdf file within Word?

Thanks

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

When I open Word, then: File/open/documents/ filename.pdf/open.. The
Convert File opens, giving me options such as, Text only, MS-Dos test, RTF,
MS Excel Worksheet. None of these choices work. Either it creates an error
or Word opens this document as a bunch of gibberish.

Well the poblem is that Word doesn't directly support PDF files.

The only way I can open pdf files is outside of Word. I have to get out of
Word, open Documents, then open the pdf file with Adobe. This is
inconvenient.

In Windows Word I was able to open pdf using adoble, from within Word. Is
there a way to put in an option, to open up a pdf file within Word?

I don't see any way you could do that.
PDFs are supported as a graphic forma in Office for Mac. It means that
you could create a new document and drag a PDF there to see it embeded
as an image.
You can't really open the PDF directly and do anything on its text or
image.


Corentin

 

[Elliott Roper]

When I open Word, then: File/open/documents/ filename.pdf/open.. The
Convert File opens, giving me options such as, Text only, MS-Dos test, RTF,
MS Excel Worksheet. None of these choices work. Either it creates an error
or Word opens this document as a bunch of gibberish.

The only way I can open pdf files is outside of Word. I have to get out of
Word, open Documents, then open the pdf file with Adobe. This is
inconvenient.

In Windows Word I was able to open pdf using adoble, from within Word. Is
there a way to put in an option, to open up a pdf file within Word?

I'd be very interested to learn if there were a way.
PDF files can be an awful mess. There is nothing to stop a PDF
authoring program spraying every 'e' onto the page and then every 't'
and so on all the way down to the q's and z's.

As a general principle, the most convenient way of preparing an
arbitrary PDF file for word processing is to OCR the little sniveller.
This has not been lost on Adobe, PDF's own parents, who provide an OCR
package within the more up-market versions of Acrobat to do exactly
that.

So count yourself lucky you get gibberish!

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Preview is a much faster PDF viewer than Adobe Reader, so should be less
inconvenient to use. You can set it as the PDF default, if you like.

If you have Preview open, you can do apple-tab to make it active, then
use File | Open from within Preview.

I feel as though one of the differences between Windows and Mac is that
Mac users tend to use the Finder much more than Windows users use
Windows Explorer. I would bypass this entire issue by not using File |
Open to open files. I almost always open files from the Finder, where I
have a number of things set up for easy access to frequently used folders.

A similar approach might be to put your Documents folder in the dock.
You could then right-click on it, navigate to wherever, and let it open
in whatever program it is supposed to open in.

Question--in Windows, when you used File | Open within Word, did the PDF
open actually in Word, or did Windows say, "oh, he wants to open a PDF,
so I should use Adobe instead"?

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi George -

In Windows Word I was able to open pdf using adoble, from within Word. Is
there a way to put in an option, to open up a pdf file within Word?

<snip>

I'm not about to tell you you haven't done what you claim to have done, but
I'd sure like to know how you managed it. Perhaps there was some sort of
add-in or utility which provided this functionality & made it _seem_ as
though it were a feature of Word.

Am at 2 PCs right now - one running 2003, the other running 2007, both with
Acrobat Professional v. 7 - and can find no way for Word to open a PDF. It
recognizes them in the Open dialog, but any attempt to do so renders the
same results you describe. Nor does PC Word Help offer any hint of how to do
anything other than _export_ as a PDF, not open one. Neither is PDF listed
anywhere as a supported file format. Even the Adobe PDFMaker toolbar doesn't
provide anything other than *output* capability.

Are you sure you weren't using Insert>Object>Create from File? That can
render the content from a PDF in a word doc as a graphic. I would sincerely
like to have complete details.

 

[little_creature]

Hi George -



<snip>

I'm not about to tell you you haven't done what you claim to have done, but
I'd sure like to know how you managed it. Perhaps there was some sort of
add-in or utility which provided this functionality & made it _seem_ as
though it were a feature of Word.

Am at 2 PCs right now - one running 2003, the other running 2007, both with
Acrobat Professional v. 7 - and can find no way for Word to open a PDF. It
recognizes them in the Open dialog, but any attempt to do so renders the
same results you describe. Nor does PC Word Help offer any hint of how to do
anything other than _export_ as a PDF, not open one. Neither is PDF listed
anywhere as a supported file format. Even the Adobe PDFMaker toolbar doesn't
provide anything other than *output* capability.

Are you sure you weren't using Insert>Object>Create from File? That can
render the content from a PDF in a word doc as a graphic. I would sincerely
like to have complete details.

Hello,
I would doubt that you can open pdf in PC WORD. What I usually do on
PC - print the pdf using MS ducument writer, then double click opens
the document in MS office document imaging use OCR recognition and
*send to word* function. MS office document imaging is a part of
office 2003. But PDF as itself in meaningful way cannot be open in
WORD.