I posted about PDF converters in the past, but, unfortunately, they have all be for the Windows platform.
Now, PDF Solutions as let me know that they have a converter for the Mac. It costs $39.95 and they have a free trial available. According to them it will preserve text, hyperlinks, images, layouts, tables, columns, graphics and colors.
It will support Adobe PDF from 1.0 to 1.7, convert files to Word documents or RTF files and does not require Adobe Reader or Acrobat.
Full info is here. If anyone tries it out let us know how it works.
I just downloaded the free trial and gave it a test on a variety of PDFs from various sources – reference books, novels, game manuals, scientific papers, etc. The results were uniformly awful – page layouts scrambled, paragraphs moved sideways to the point that words were lost over the margin, whole columns moved onto separate pages, some words scattered to random spots on the page, all illustrations vanished into thin air, and anything resembling mathematical notation turned into dingbat salad.
Verdict: Two thumbs way down. Don’t waste your money.
Dear Ross，
This is Ricky from AnyBizSoft Support Center. Firstly thank you for your precious feedback.
You have done a comprehensive evaluation on our software and if you do not mind, could you please contact us via support@anybizsoft.com and provide more detials of your evaluation, also with your testing PDF files would be greatly helpful. We consistently strive to make our product almost prefect. However, the performance of our software sometimes depends on the OS environment and the complexity of original PDF files.
We appreciate the feedback from you and any other users. With them we can keep improving our Software continually.