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ST Mac/PC gurus; My wife's Aunt created a cookbook of family recipes about 10 years ago with InDesign on a Mac. Is there a way to take the file and

Posted by landbeck Mar 3 '10, 08:12

translate it into something MS Word could read (I do not know what version of InDesign she used)?

The Aunt thinks the only option is to turn it into a .pdf. That would preserve the lay-out, but I wanted to be able to update the recipes with family dishes that have become popular in the last two decades.

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InDesign doesn't have very many useful export/save as formats. Sadly, she's probably stuck -- nm - oblique Mar 3, 08:18
If you have a pdf, there are ways of converting that into a word document (could lose some formatting though). -- nm - Don Homer Mar 3, 08:13 3
- True, but I was wondering if there were a more direct way to get it from the original file into something I could edit. Adobe files are handy, but so - landbeck Mar 3, 08:14 2
  - You can download a trial copy of InDesign from Adobe but that's not going to help with the file format (see above) - oblique Mar 3, 08:18
  - assuming you have a printout, a scanner may do the trick (via an OCR) depending on the settings you use. -- nm - Don Homer Mar 3, 08:15

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