"arno" wrote...
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Pls. read the question of jrandall again. We are talking about
transferring _d_a_t_a_ and not about _documents_.

It's addresses, and the OP has already pasted them into Excel. All s/he
really needs is parsing help. The OP should provide a sampling of addresses.
It may be easier than s/he thinks to parse them. And given that the data is
just addresses, there's no guarantee that the original data file may be any
easier to parse.

It's child's play to change XLS files. It's much more
difficult to change PDF files.

I hope, you do not really believe this.

If you have the tools (e.g., latest version of GhostScript), then it's not
too difficult to modify PDFs files. However, given the standard set of
business applications on a Windows PC, nearly all business users wouldn't be
able to modify PDF files without corrupting them.

Other than DEBUG.COM and coding ad hoc programs in VBScript or VJScript, I
can't think of any approved software on my work PC that could modify PDF
files. How would you go about doing it so that the resulting file is a
working PDF file?


It would seem you're unfamiliar with the wonderful world of
electronic data sharing

You're right. I never shared production data, invoice data, guarantee
data, orders, automatic ftp up and downloands, customs declarations,
olap data, edifakt, normed invoicing for building industries,
governmental statistics...

You clipped the context, thus misquoted what I wrote, in order to respond
sarcastically. I'll help you out by restoring the context.

"It would seem you're unfamiliar with the wonderful world of electronic data
sharing between contractual parties in common law jurisdictions, where the
main goal is *AVOIDING* arguments over which copies of given files are
*ORIGINAL*."

If outsiders could pull data from web pages or (for them) read-only ftp data
sources, then those would be acceptable alternatives because the original
data wouldn't be subject to disagreement (or there'd be a presumption that
the data thus available was original). However, if the only data
transmission option is e-mail with file attachments, PDF files are usually
the best option.