Solid Converter PDF
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Solid Converter PDF is commercial document reconstruction software from Solid Documents which converts PDF files to editable formats. Originally released for the Microsoft Windows
operating system, a Mac OS X
version was released in 2010. The current versions are Solid Converter PDF 7 for Windows and Solid PDF to Word for Mac.
user interface, allowing for direct editing of PDFs.In 2010, release of version 7 included several product feature enhancements including table editing improvements, recover text markup, extract PDF to .csv, and selective conversion.December 2010 saw the release of version 7.0 and with it a number of product feature enhancements including selective conversion, table and workflow improvements.
.docx and .doc, .rtf, Microsoft Excel
.xlsx, .xml, Microsoft PowerPoint
.pptx, .html and .txt. Besides converting PDF files to document file formats for editing, users may also edit PDFs directly in the program. It preserves the original layout and formatting during conversion and emphasizes a simple, easy-to-use interface. Other features include table recovery, hyperlink detection, adding watermarks, rearranging pages, and PDF creation. Version 7 no longer requires Microsoft Office
to be installed to convert to Office Open XML formats.
editor. System requirements include Mac OS X v10.5 or later and iWork to convert to .pages format.
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
operating system, a Mac OS X
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
version was released in 2010. The current versions are Solid Converter PDF 7 for Windows and Solid PDF to Word for Mac.
History
By the second version's release in early 2004, Solid Converter PDF was already noted for its focus on editing and recapturing content from previously-inaccessible PDF files. The release of v4 in May 2008 introduced a transition away from its original wizard interface to a WYSIWYGWYSIWYG
WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product...
user interface, allowing for direct editing of PDFs.In 2010, release of version 7 included several product feature enhancements including table editing improvements, recover text markup, extract PDF to .csv, and selective conversion.December 2010 saw the release of version 7.0 and with it a number of product feature enhancements including selective conversion, table and workflow improvements.
Features
Solid Converter PDF's supported conversion formats include Microsoft WordMicrosoft Word
Microsoft Word is a word processor designed by Microsoft. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including IBM PCs running DOS , the Apple Macintosh , the AT&T Unix PC , Atari ST , SCO UNIX,...
.docx and .doc, .rtf, Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel is a proprietary commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications...
.xlsx, .xml, Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint, usually just called PowerPoint, is a non-free commercial presentation program developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Office suite, and runs on Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X operating system...
.pptx, .html and .txt. Besides converting PDF files to document file formats for editing, users may also edit PDFs directly in the program. It preserves the original layout and formatting during conversion and emphasizes a simple, easy-to-use interface. Other features include table recovery, hyperlink detection, adding watermarks, rearranging pages, and PDF creation. Version 7 no longer requires Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office is a non-free commercial office suite of inter-related desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, introduced by Microsoft in August 1, 1989. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of...
to be installed to convert to Office Open XML formats.
Mac OS X Version
Solid Documents released Solid PDF to Word for Mac, its first product for the Mac OS X operating system, in April 2010. It has many of the same features as Solid Converter PDF including conversion to Word and Excel formats, page layout preservation, and batch conversion. Unlike the Windows version, Solid PDF to Word is able to convert to iWork Pages format and utilizes an Open File dialog interface (similar to early Solid Converter PDF incarnations) instead of the full WYSIWYGWYSIWYG
WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product...
editor. System requirements include Mac OS X v10.5 or later and iWork to convert to .pages format.