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Tine Müller
 
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Default copy text from pdf to htm - 08-01-2004 , 07:58 AM






Is there a way to keep "bold" from the pdf-file when you paste it in
Dreamweaver?



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Default Re: copy text from pdf to htm - 08-01-2004 , 11:12 AM






On 8/1/04 6:58 AM, in article ceilsp$22c$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com, "Tine
Müller" <tinem (AT) email (DOT) dk> wrote:

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Is there a way to keep "bold" from the pdf-file when you paste it in
Dreamweaver?
Yes, but it's hokey and may not be worth the effort. Also, note that this
works on Macs and may or may not work on PC's.

1) Copy your PDF Text.
2) Open a blank MS-Word doc
3) Paste the copied text into the word doc (bold remains)
4) Save the Word doc as HTML
5) Open the new HTML file in DW and begin the process of cleaning up Word's
weird HTML. DW used to have a menu item that would do that, but I haven't
seen it lately and never did used it. I had used "Find and Replace" for so
long, by the time I noticed it, that I continue to use it to this day. That
can be a lot easier than manually going through a long document, locating
where the bold should have been and retagging it. For short documents, do it
manually.

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Default Re: copy text from pdf to htm - 08-02-2004 , 02:48 AM



John Gaver wrote:
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Yes, but it's hokey and may not be worth the effort. Also, note that
this works on Macs and may or may not work on PC's.

1) Copy your PDF Text.
2) Open a blank MS-Word doc
3) Paste the copied text into the word doc (bold remains)
4) Save the Word doc as HTML
5) Open the new HTML file in DW and begin the process of cleaning up
Word's weird HTML. DW used to have a menu item that would do that,
but I haven't seen it lately and never did used it. I had used "Find
and Replace" for so long, by the time I noticed it, that I continue
to use it to this day. That can be a lot easier than manually going
through a long document, locating where the bold should have been and
retagging it. For short documents, do it manually.
Thanks for your answer. I think I will do it manually. Every year I make a
new site from this kind of file
http://apa-afspaending.homepage.dk/g...oe_program.pdf and I copy
and paste in Dreamweaver MX 2004 and the new site looks like this
http://apa-afspaending.homepage.dk/gundsoe/

Some other thing I have discovered maybe you also can help with these.

I use "Select Table" where the text has been written in columns and
sometimes a "space" is deleted and I also have to change to ("") and (') in
the pdf-file it looks like this (APA's and "Fyraftenshold"). Is this the
way it is?


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