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Originally Posted by pilotbob
That's a silly excuse. Adobe is the inventor of PDF and has been creating tools to create/read/edit them for quite a while. Adobe claims they are the best tools on the market. They have more PDF knowledge in house than any other company. If you are saying that they can't leverage that knowledge to create DE then they are doing something wrong. I would bet there are a few people on the DE team that were on the Acrobat team.
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Actually, I would say the Adobe team as a whole has been quite unable to make the format compatible or transferrable to anything else. I got the Acrobat 9 Pro version recently, and have been meddling around with the export to Word or to html features, and without being broken, it's quite incapable of producing satisfying results. But then, Adobe themselves say it is not their intention, so perhaps the format is indeed THAT incompatible with... Well, just anything else!
By the way, I found one way that seems to be giving good results when converting a PDF into a html: when running ReadIris OCR on a PDF text based document, the result looks quite good. It's a bit ridiculous, considering there's nothing to OCR, but that might prove an effective tool for converting PDFs. It'll do nothing for protected PDFs, obviously.