[TriLUG] convert pdf to doc

[David Burton via TriLUG]

The latest Kingsoft WPS Office
<http://www.kingsoftstore.com/software/kingsoft-office-freeware> Writer
(self-identifies at v. 10.2.0.5934) supports PDF-to-DOC file conversion. I
just tried it on a .pdf file, and the .doc conversion looks just about
perfect.

Caveat #1:  I only tried it on one file.

Caveat #2:  WPS Office has the very obnoxious habit of seizing control of
.pdf files (and perhaps MS Office files), repeatedly making itself the
default Windows application for opening such files. See the forwarded email
& annotated screenshot, below, for how to disable that.

Dave



---------- Begin forwarded message ----------
From: David Burton
Date: Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 5:53 AM
Subject: How to stop Kingsoft Writer from changing Windows file association
for PDF files
To: Kingsoft <officesupport at kingsoft.com>


Dear Kingsoft folks,


Kingsoft WPS Office is a very fine tool, and I am quite impressed with your
many improvements. In particular, I very much prefer the ads which the free
version now has, to the horrible printing "watermarks" which it used to
have!

But I have encountered a problem in the latest version, which is very
annoying. The problem is that, even after I manually change the default
file association for .pdf files to Adobe Reader, WPS Office changes the
default file association for .pd files from "Adobe Reader" to "WPS Writer."

That is very undesirable and unfriendly behavior! That should not happen by
default!

I google-searched
<https://www.google.com/search?q=How+to+stop+Kingsoft+Writer+from+changing+Windows+file+association+for+PDF+files&btnG=Search>
and
found an article
<http://www.binarynow.com/office-suite/change-kingsoft-office-default-file-association-file-formats-to-microsoft-office-doc-rtf-xls-and-ppt/>
about
using "Kingsoft Office Configuration Tool" (now called WPS Office
Configuration Tool) to change the file associations. So I think that will
stop this bad behavior by WPS Writer.

But the behavior should never happen, anyhow. Kingsoft Office should never
make itself the default application for handling another program's native
files without first obtaining the permission of the user. For .pdf files,
the native programs are Adobe's Acrobat and Acrobat Reader. For .doc and
.docx files, the native programs are Microsoft Word and Word Viewer. Etc.

Will you please fix WPS Office to never seize another program's file
associations without first obtaining the user's permission to do so?
*...[snip]*
---------- End forwarded message ----------


http://www.geeksalive.com/kingsoft_wps_settings_fix1.png
<http://www.geeksalive.com/kingsoft_wps_settings_fix1.png>

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