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What is New in Chief-Win PDF Converter PE V2.0

Purchasing Chief-Win PDF Converter

Software Features

System Requirement

Install Chief-Win PDF Converter

Start using PDF Converter

PDF Converter Setting

Chief-Win PDF Converter FAQs

Troubleshooting

Contact Chief-Win Corporation


What is New in Chief-Win PDF Converter PE V2.0
What is New in Chief-Win PDF Converter PE V2.0?

- Add Non-Standard Encoding Recognize Function (For English Characters)

- Add PDF Form Support

- Keep Text Flow In Default Setting

- Enhance PDF Conversion Stability

- Fix Several PDF Conversion Bug


Purchasing Chief-Win PDF Converter

Chief-Win PDF Converter PE Price: US $35

There are several convenient ways to purchase Chief-Win PDF Converter PE:

Purchase on the Internet:

RegNow does offer secure ordering options to payment online with a credit card or through Paypal account. To use these optiones, please visit our web site at http://www.chief-win.com/, or click buy button from software startup screen.

Purchase by Telephone, Fax, or Postal Mail:

If you are concerned about using a credit card via Internet, RegNow offers other options such as payment by phone (using credit card), mail, fax, wire transfer, and PO (if applicable). Please note that utilizing one of these offline ordering options, you will be required to pay an additional processing fee. The web site will then give you the additional information you need, such as telephone or fax numbers or mailing address.


Software Features

PDF To Word

◇ Recognize Non-Standard Encoding For English Characters (New)
　　◇ Retains Page Layout, Font, Text Flow, Graphic, and Image
　　◇ Retains Graphical Format with Sharp Edge (Graphics are NOT rendered to Pictures)
　　◇ Support PDF Form(New)
　　◇ Supports Gray/RGB/CIE/CMYK/Seperation/ICC/Index Color Space
　　◇ Supports Unicode and Asian encoding
　　◇ Supports Password-Proctected PDF
　　◇ Individual Object Controlling Ability (Graphic/Text/Image can be enabled/disabled individually)
　　◇ Page Range Selection (User can specify the PDF file pages to be converted)
　　◇ Easy to Use (Mouse right-click menu add-in)
　　◇ Multiple Files Converting Ability

PDF To Text

◇ Recognize Non-Standard Encoding For English Characters (New)
　　◇ Exports all text in a PDF file to a text file
　　◇ Support PDF Form(New)
　　◇ Supports Password-Proctected PDF

◇ Retains Text Paragraph Or Direct Dump Text In PDFs(New)
　　◇ Supports various text output format:

Unicode(UTF-8, UTF16-LE, UTF16-BE), Asci, West Europe Language (English, French, German, Spanish, etc), GB-2312 (Simplified Chinese), Shift-JIS (Japanese), Big5 (Traditional Chinese), Korea, Russian

◇ Page Range Selection (User can specify the PDF file pages to be converted)
◇ Easy Use (Mouse right-click menu add-in)
◇ Multiple Files Converting Ability

Extract PDF BMP

◇ Extracts all pictures in the PDF files into a specify directory folder
◇ Supports Password-Proctected PDF

◇ Output Formats: BMP or PNG
◇ Supports CCITT（FAX）/DCT (JPEG)/LZW/Flate (PNG)/JBIG2/JPEG2000 filters
◇ Page Range Selection (User can specify the PDF file pages to be converted)
◇ Easy Use (Mouse right-click menu add-in)


System Requirement

◇ Windows 2000, 2003, XP

◇ Microsoft Word 97, 2000, XP, or 2003

◇ Internet connection is required for product download and installation.


Install Chief-Win PDF Converter

Note: Please make sure you have administrator authority before install the program. The mouse right-click menu will not be available if you install this program without administrator authority.

Please follow the procedures below to install this program on your computer:

Step 1: Run the setup file, with the popup dialog, please click 〝Next〞 button to continue;

Step 2: Select or create a new program installation folder, click 〝Next〞 button to continue after make the installation folder;

Step 3: Check the program's shortcut String that will be created in the start menu, and then click 〝Next〞 button to continue;

Step 4: In the 〝confirm〞 dialog, click 〝Install〞 button to continue;

Step 5: After the installation is complete, click 〝Finish〞 button to exit installation wizard.


Start use PDF convert
Start using PDF Converter

There are two methods to use Chief-Win PDF Converter.

Method 1 -- use Mouse Right Click Menu to convert PDF file to Word/Text file.

Step 1: In Windows File Manage, select the single PDF file to be converted. To be convert several PDF files   at the same time, use SHIFT + Mouse Left Click or CTRL + Mouse Right Click to select the multiple PDF files to be converted.

Step 2: Mouse Right Click, a menu as below will pop up, select one of the following three actions you want to execute: Convert to Word file(s), Convert to Text file(s), Extract Image file(s).

If the PDF file is password-protected. A dialog box as below will pop up, you need to input correct password to convert the PDF file.

After the conversion is completed, a message box will pop up to indicate the output file name, click OK to close the window.

Method 2: Use Chief-Win PDF Converter software to convert PDF file to Word/Text file.

Step 1: Start Chief-Win PDF Convert   PE by select Start/Program/Chief-Win PDF Converter/ Chief-Win PDF Converter PE, a user interface will show up as below

Step 2: Select one of the three actions you want to execute: PDF To Word, PDF To Text or Extract PDF Image, a dialog box as below will pop up. Select the input PDF file name and output file you want to convert aaand the output file name, click OK if you complete the selection.

Step 3: Click Convert button at the bottom of software to start the conversion. If the PDF file is password -protected. A dialog box as below will pop up, you need to input correct password to convert the PDF file.

After conversion is completed, a message box will pop up to indicate the output file name. Clicks OK to close the window.


PDF Convert Setting
PDF Converter Setting

PDF To Word Setting

Click the 〝setting〞button at the upper-right of the software, window will pop up as below, please click 〝PDF To Word〞tab.

1). Convert Object Setting

You can select what kind of objects you want to convert. Text/Graphic/Image Objects can be enabled or disabled through individual check box..

Notice: Non-Standard Encoding Recognize function is enabled after installation software, Chief-Win Character Recognize Technology can only recognize English characters, if the characters converted are still not correct, user can un-check the Enable Non-Standard Encoding Recognize checkbox to disable Non-Standard Encoding function.

2). Text Convert Setting

You can select different text convert setting: keep text flow or keep text layout, if you select keep text layout, then all the text will be converted to text box, the position of all text are accurate, text will no be clipped, if you select keep text flow, the text flow and layout will be retain as best as we can, some text will be clipped, some text which can抰 be put in text flow maybe convert to text box.

3). Page Range Setting

You can select the pages you would like to convert. You can convert 〝all pages〞 or you can convert the pages you need.

Select page format: Page Range [, Page Range]..[, Page Range]

Page range format: Start Page [ - End Page]

Select Page Example: 1,3, 7-9 means page 1, page 3, page 7, page 8 and page 9 is selected.

PDF To Text Setting

Click the 〝setting〞 button at the upper-right of the software, a PDF convertion window will pop up as below, please click 〝PDF To Text〞tab

1). Char Set Setting

You can set various text output formats including Unicode (UTF-8, UTF16-LE, UTF16-BE), ASCI, West Europe Language (English, French, German, Spanish, etc), GB-2312 (Simplified Chinese), Shift-JIS (Japanese), Big5 (Traditional Chinese), Korea, Russian.

2). Text Convert Setting

You can select different text convert setting: keep paragraph or dump PDF text. If you select keep paragraph, then overlap or duplicate text will be removed, we will automatic add extra blank character and blank line for best readability, text will merge to paragraph according their position and sequence. If you select dump PDF text, all the text in PDF file will be dump exactly same as original data in PDF files, the text maybe duplicate, the text sequence maybe not same as human reading sequence, no extra blank character or blank line are added, it should be used only when Keep Paragraph setting doesn抰 work.

3). Page Range Setting

You can select the pages you would like to convert. You can convert 〝all pages〞 or you can convert the pages you need.

Select page format: Page Range [, Page Range]..[, Page Range]

Page range format: Start Page [ - End Page]

Select Page Example: 1,3, 7-9 means page 1, page 3, page 7, page 8 and page 9 is selected.

Extract PDF Image Setting

Click the 〝setting〞 button at the upper-right of the software, a PDF conversion window will pop up as below, please click 〝Extract Image〞tab

1)	Image Format Setting

You can set various image output formats including PNG and BMP.

2)	Page Range Setting

You can select the pages you want to convert. You can convert 〝all pages〞 or you can convert the pages you need.

Select page format: Page Range [, Page Range]..[, Page Range]

Page range format: Start Page [ - End Page]

Select Page Example: 1,3, 7-9 means page 1, page 3, page 7, page 8 and page 9 is selected.


Chief-Win PDF Convert FAQs
Chief-Win PDF Converter FAQs

Can I convert multiple PDF files at the same time?
Yes. You can convert multiple files at the same time. Method 1 : use SHIFT + Mouse Left Click or CTRL + Mouse Left Click to select multiple PDF files you want to convert, Mouse right click, a menu will pop up, select PDF2Word menu and select one of the three functions : "convert to word files" / "convert to text files" / "extract image files" according to your need. In this way, all selected PDF files will be converted sequentially at the same time. Method 2 : Open Chief-Win PDF Converter PE, click "PDF To Word" / "PDF To Text" / "Extract Image" button according your need, and select the PDF files you want to convert one by one. Once all PDF files are selected, click "Convert" button. In this way, all selected PDF files will be converted sequentially at the same time.

Can I specify the file page range to be converted?
Yes. You can specify the file page range to be converted. Open Chief-Win PDF Converter PE, click "Setting" button, choose one of the three tabs: "PDF To Word" / "PDF To Text" / "Extract Image", in each tab, you can check the "Selected Pages" box and enter specific page number or a page range, after page range input complete, click "OK" to save the setting.

Why output Word files size is much bigger than original PDF file?
Because of certain compression algorithm is used for original PDF file, it has a reasonable file size. For future upgrade, we will apply compression algorithm to lower the word file size as small as possible and retain the same conversion capabilities as well. Before the release of the future version, you can save the word file to a small size format by yourself as follows. Use Microsoft Word to reopen the converted doc file. Select the  "Save As" button from the File menu.  Select the output file type as " Word Document (*.doc)" in the pop-up dialog box. In this way, you can find out that the doc file size would be decreased a lot.

My text looks correct in PDF, But why the char code become a mess after conversion?
This problem occurs when the text uses a non-standard encoding method. PDF converter has two methods to recognize the text: either use ToUnicode dictionary in PDF or check if the character use a standard character name, If the characters have no ToUnicode dictionary and it uses non-standard character name, then there is no way to figure out which character code it is without using OCR plug-in module to scan the character bitmap. Chief-Win PDF Converter have build-in Character Recognize Engine for English characters, it can recognize Non-Standard Encoding for English character, Most of the text conversion bugs are fixed.

Why do some of my originally color objects change to gray after conversion?
Some color objects use Pattern color space in the PDF file, a postscript rendering machine is necessary to render color information correctly. Chief-Win PDF converter have no postscript Rendering Machine, all pattern object are rendering to light gray.

Why is the mouse right-click menu not show with Windows Context Menu?

If you install the PDF Converter without administrator authority, the mouse right-click menu will not show with Windows Context Menu. Please ensure you have the administrator authority and re-install this program again. Please contact our Technical Support via support@chief-win.com if this phenomenon still occurs.

What is the cost for upgrade?
Any minor upgrades within the same software version is free (i.e. upgrade from 1.x to 1.y), however major upgrades to newer versions need to be purchased (i.e. upgrade from 1.x to 2.x).

How do I contact technical support?
All purchase of Chief-Win PDF Converter come with free technical support, Simply send email to support@chief-win.com if you have any questions or comments about our product.


Troubleshooting

How to report a bug?

When you find a bug, please send an email to support@chief-win.com with complete information so that we can fix it accordingly. Please tell us the problem phenomena, the Windows OS version and language you are using, and the Microsoft Word version. Also, do not forget to attach the original PDF file with which the problem occurs.

Known Issues:

1.	The output Word file size is much bigger than PDF file

It is our bug, we will use compress method to eliminate the Word file size in the future upgrade (free), there is a work around for this issue, you can use Microsoft Word open the doc file, and press the "Save As" button, it will pop up a dialog box, please choose the output file type as " Word Document(*.doc)", you will find the doc file size down a lot.


Contact Chief-Win Corporation

There are many ways to contact us. Our staff is available Monday through Friday, from 9:00AM to 5:00PM (Beijing Time).

By Phone

Your international access code + 86-10-62865695

By E-Mail

For Sales Or Business Opportunity: sales@chief-win.com

Customer service and technical support: support@chief-win.com

By Regular Mail

Chief-Win Corp.
Room 329, Haiyuan Business Building,
No. 21 YiMuYuan, XiYuan
HaiDian District, Beijing 100091

People's Repuiblic of China