I have an application I work with (GDSS2) that produces a document in PDF format, that's the only format, and there is nothing I can do about it.
What I would like to do is export the PDF to a comma delimited text file, and than import this information into a Word .doc which has been formatted a specific way.
It's been a few years since I did anything with VB6, but in principle, I should be able to write a small app to do this, correct?
In the distant past, I wrote some pretty complicated stuff using VB6, but never really played around with Word .docs.
How are you going to convert the PDF to CSV? VB doesn't natively support this ... the Word part is trivial compared to that. planetpdf.com is a good resource to tackle the first part ...
How are you going to convert the PDF to CSV? VB doesn't natively support this ... the Word part is trivial compared to that. planetpdf.com is a good resource to tackle the first part ...My copy of PDF will export to CSV. But I'll bet there is a widget, and I can justify the cost. But at the most, it's a user step befor running the VB app. Could this be done ithin Word as a macro?
You should be able to reference the various Adobe libraries in whatever VB version, including Word VBA. As far as using them, I don't know. I've been asked before if I could convert PDFs to Word Docs and for the sake of my own sanity I said "no". :-)
You should be able to reference the various Adobe libraries in whatever VB version, including Word VBA. As far as using them, I don't know. I've been asked before if I could convert PDFs to Word Docs and for the sake of my own sanity I said "no". :-)I plan to avoid formmating issues with the intermediate step of converting the PDF to CSV. CSV to Word seems like it should be straight forward.