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Originally Posted by droopy
dnsb,
no, the footnotes are not properly constructed at all.
I got Microsoft Word 2016 to open the book PDF. Just as in the PDF, the footnotes in MS Word have a smaller font size than the body. Unlike the PDF, the footnotes in MS Word are no longer at the bottom of the page; instead, they could be in the middle of the page (this is what Word's PDF Reflow does).
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Sure, of course they are--they
aren't footnotes any more; they're simply regular, but small, content at the bottom of any given page.
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Also, the footnote superscript numbers in the body of the text are not linked to the footnote itself.
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Yup.
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Is there an automated way to get the footnotes "properly constructed" (not actually sure what that means)?
Thanks all.
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No, there's no
automated way. This is why most commercial formatters don't bother with the PDF-Word-->Whatever option, because speaking frankly, it doesn't work worth a damn. It's why converting from PDF is the single most onerous task, for more-complexly-formatted files.
If you have a PDF with footnotes, etc., you are almost
always better off going the AbbyyFineReader route. Footnotes are
invariably lost when you try to do the 'save as" or 'convert to" etc., Word route from a pdf.
What you have now, you have to go through and
recreate the footnotes, in Word, using the automated functionality, one-by-one. OR, you could open it up in HTML and
code them--one by one. But those are pretty much your two choices.
Hitch