Hey thanks a lot and with that recommendation, I just have to give it a try.
Scott On Oct 3, 2010, at 10:21 AM, Justin Ekis wrote: > Hi Scott, > > In my original post I mentioned my first experience with this. Yes I have > used it and it works very well. You wouldn't even know that there was > something going on in the background, it just feels like textedit supports > pdf files directly. It's very impressive. The reason the reviews are dated is > because the service hasn't been updated since 2007. It's functionality is > complete and there is no need to update it, unless a future version of OSX > happens to change the API that it uses. > > > On Oct 3, 2010, at 2:35 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > > I looked at the reviews on the site and they seem dated. SO, have you used > this and if so, did you find that the conversion was pretty successful? > > Thanks, > Scott > > On Oct 2, 2010, at 10:55 PM, Justin Ekis wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Recently, there was a mention of something called Word Service. I went >> looking for it and found something even more useful on the same site. It's >> called pdf2rtf service. This service allows you to open pdf files in >> textedit. I find preview to be usable, but not always very intuitive. >> >> My professor makes notes available for each lecture as powerpoint files. I >> export them to pdf using Keynote from the iwork suite, then I open the pdf >> in textedit. Now not only do I have the notes, but I can quickly insert my >> own notes if I hear something during the lecture that I think could be >> important. I'm pretty sure you can't do that in preview. >> >> Here's the link for the download page. Strangely, instead of just copying >> the address, if I press vo-shift-m and select copy link, it actually copies >> the original link from the site. Must have been introduced in a recent >> nightly. Hopefully it's clickable. >> >> Download all our freeware apps and services here >> >> Hope someone else finds this discovery useful. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
