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In response to "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" by landbeck

If you have a pdf, there are ways of converting that into a word document (could lose some formatting though). -- nm

Posted by Don Homer (aka DonHomer) Mar 3 '10, 08:13

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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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