![]() ![]() But, the proof is in the pudding (or ice cream). The producers make some pretty bold claims as to what this program is capable of. Sorry, but "Ice Cream" should probably be "I SCREAM" because that's what most users are going to do after they see what kind of results this program produces. Karl, was this an OCR conversion? That would explain the atrocious results. And, it missed the diamond-shaped bullet points. Also, Ice Cream did not distinguish between the two different fonts used in the original, defaulting all text to Helvetica. ![]() This caused the text from the left column to run into the text in the right column. One thing the Ice Cream program missed was the column separation. When using an OCR program to convert a printed page, such as a page from a printed book, to a digital document, some sacrifice of format or layout may be necessary. Sometimes, the original font is simply not available, such as when scanning a document with an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program. So, in many cases, it's an issue with embedding the font (if available) in the PDF during conversion. This often results in the PDF not matching the original document, with some text not fitting on the page, or being jumbled. When the particular font is not available, the PDF reader will use whatever font it has that is most equivalent. Otherwise, the PDF reader will not be able to recreate the document to match the original. If an original document uses a font different from these base fonts, the particular font must be embedded in the PDF during conversion. Adobe Acrobat has their "standard 14 fonts," which is actually only five fonts, with three being text fonts (Times, Helvetica and Courier). One thing that many people do not realize is that a conversion program, even Adobe Acrobat, has a very limited number of fonts to convert to. There seems to be a lot of junk out there, which is disappointing. I do a lot of PDF conversions in my business, so I need software that works without problems. I'm paying Adobe (the original creator of the PDF format) $10 per month for their CreatePDF online converter. Thanks, Karl, for the very helpful evaluation.
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