Comments by "John h Palmer" (@johnhpalmer6098) on "How Do I Convert PDF to Word for Free?" video.
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I have used Acrobat and when Adobe shut down the CS4 servers recently, I only discovered this when I tried to reinstall CS4 Master Suite, which contains Acrobat 9, among other programs and I could not reinstall due to needing to do a sudden PC replacement at the time, and no, not a drive issue, but "mainboard failure" issue, turned out to be a dead CMOS battery, but it never threw that code.
Anyway, run PDF Gear now and in many ways, it's better than Acrobat. You can take a form, scan it into your PC, open it, and add editable dialog boxes for either you, or others to fill out, save as PDF (boxes get flatten upon resaving) and you now have a typed PDF form. I've seen these offered on rare occasions online, and can generate them myself, either for me to fill out, resend back as PDF or sent off as an attachment to a third party to fill out, resave as a PDF and send back to me, I was then able to download and reattach into a new email. Worked like a charm.
However, fixing PDF's is another story, as you say, best to save as a Word or equivalent document, then resave a new updated version as PDF.
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