Acrobat and XML
May 19, 2004
Here’s a sentence I wouldn’t have found myself writing a couple of years ago.
I am finding the latest version of Acrobat to be helpful in some XML work I am doing.
It’s a simple thing really, but I have been taking some consistently styled Microsoft Word files, publishing them as PDF, and then using the “save as XML” feature in Acrobat 6.0. (I know that I could use the “save as XML” feature in the latest version of Word, but the machine I happen to be using has Word 2000.)
The Acrobat-produced XML is OK. Not great, but more than workable, which is what I need for this particular project. It’s nice to have this kind of option, especially since there is no shortage of PDF documents out there.
Posted by Bill Trippe at May 19, 2004 9:09 PM
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If you happen to need a more robust, programmatic Word-to-XML approach, take a look at R2Net, by Logictran, at
http://www.logictran.net/products/r2net.html
I used it extensively a couple of years ago and found it to be an exceptionally capable tool for exporting RTF to any kind of markup structure.
Fascinating blog, Bill -- thanks!
Sheila
Posted by Sheila at May 25, 2004 12:51 PM