PDF2RTF

Miscellaneous Needful things
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Hi,

I’m in the process of ‘auditioning’ DT Pro Office (I can’t believe how much it’s helped already–thanks!). I was digging around the site and found the PDF2RTF app. This could be another Godsend as I spend a great deal of time manually converting PDFs from others into editable RTFs. My question/problem is actually a bit embarrassing given that I consider myself fairly savvy in the use of all kinds of apps. I had no problem installing the app in the services folder. I logged out/in. Then I tried to open a PDF w/ Pages and, well, couldn’t. How does one go about doing that? I tried going to File/Open and selecting a PDF but every one was grayed out. Then I tried dragging a PDF onto the Pages icon in the dock…no luck. I went to the Services menu under Pages…nothing. I know I’m missing something obvious but can’t figure out what it is.

Any help would be appreciated (as I sit here imagining how much time this app could save me)!

Thanks,

Jeff

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Pages is unfortunately not supporting “filter services” but many Cocoa applications using the Cocoa text engine (e.g. TextEdit) support it.

3

If you have a searchable PDF in your DTPO database and wish to extract part or all of its text to Pages, here’s a quick way:

In DTPO, select the PDF+Text document and choose Data > Convert > to (plain or rich) text. A new text document will be created.

Select all or a portion of that text document, copy it to the clipboard and paste it into your Pages document.

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Thanks for the info. Very helpful.