Comments on: Convert InDesign files to Microsoft Word.

By: sandways

sandways — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:11:01 +0000

My client needed her book, designed in InDesign, converted to a Word file so she could sell it as a digital book. This was the format that the company required, unfortunately. So I tried pdf to Word online converter. It destroyed my layout – all formatting was lost and all the photos disappeared.

By: nemop

nemop — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:49:50 +0000

Hi! There are various converters available, some may avoid it but may not avoid other formatting.
You can just try different converters. Try this easy and cute pdf converter, may be nemo pdf converter, click here. http://www.nemopdf.com/products/all_to_pdf.html

By: MaddMax

MaddMax — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:20:01 +0000

Any ideas how coocooforcocoapuffs can convert the Word file to InDesign format?

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:34:20 +0000

What about equations that have been created in an InDesign plugin? I get requests all the time from engineers to resave a printed manual or standard in Word and I want to scream.

By: Tweak PDF

Tweak PDF — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:04:20 +0000

Tweak PDF To Word 3.0 is a little program to convert PDF to editable Word for easier editing. The converter enjoys an exact conversion with the output Word retaining intact of all the original features of the PDF, including layout, image positioning, text font, graphics, hyperlinks, etc.
Encrypted PDF files can be converted to Word, too.
http://www.tweakpdf.com

By: Marianne

Marianne — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:44:39 +0000

Thank you so much for your recommendation of Nitro PDF Pro. It’s some truly remarkable software.

I did test conversions of a .pdf created via InDesign, containing text, images and tables with columns, with both Acrobat 9 and Nitro to .doc. The one converted by Acrobat was terribly mixed up – the columns were gone, the tables layered on top of each other, the images with huge table cells around them that had nothing to do with their dimensions. It would have taken hours to fix, considering I had about 5 tabloid-sized 3-column 2-pagers of these to do. But the one converted by Nitro was almost *perfect*. I just had to fix some paragraph spacing, which is trivial compared to the hours of work I would have had to do with the Acrobat-converted .doc.

By: coocooforcocoapuffs

coocooforcocoapuffs — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:21:19 +0000

jonas, I also see no point in this. u should all be going the other way, from Word to Indesign if you are serious about publishing. Or go to Word 2008 on a mac, which is a little better. But if you get that far, go to Pages which is by far better then Word. Cheers.

By: jonas

jonas — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:09:20 +0000

I was going to use this but I don’t see how to save an InDesign file as anything but a .indd filetype. Formatting Word 2007 is such a freaking nightmare – I cannot begin to understand it no matter what I do. Word is officially so much worse than it used to be and it was never good.

By: designgrl

designgrl — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:48:05 +0000

I am a freelance designer and use CS3 on Vista at home, but work mostly for a small ‘mom and pop’ print shop still running Pagemaker 6.5 on Mac OS 9. Believe me, I would much rather keep the format in InDesign, but they originally designed in Pagemaker and now their client wants to start designing and editing on their own from my files. Needless to say, the only thing their client can use is Word or Publisher which really aren’t layout and design friendly. I wish everyone would realize that Microsoft just doesn’t create a comparable nor compatible product. Adobe is the way to go.

By: Vivian

Vivian — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:44:34 +0000

Why not use AnyBizSoft pdf to word. A friend recommended this to me as i usually to type some non-editable pdfs for my boss. That is really a life saver to me. I don’t need to type manually any more. Thanks god！
http://www.anypdftools.com/pdf-to-word.html#153