Opening and Converting a PDF In this example, we’ll convert a PDF and show you the Converter’s main features in action. This is a 3-page case study. The text is in 3 columns, with the first paragraph in bold. There is a header containing a company logo image, another logo at the beginning of the article, and a table on page 2. The document is displaying in the Converter’s Original view pane. You can use the Original toolbar controls to adjust the view by zooming, dragging, and viewing one entire page, part of a page or a continuous display. To go from page to page, you use the navigation controls at the foot of the screen. You can go to next, previous, first or last page or type in a page number and press Enter to go to it directly. Let’s convert the document by clicking the Convert button. Processing messages display briefly, then it’s done … and the Editing pane opens, displaying the converted document. Comparing the original and converted versions, the main difference is that the HTML version replaces the print-oriented layout of the PDF with accessible HTML to create a document designed primarily for online consumption – so for example multicolumn text is turned into single-column. Where headings are concerned, the Converter checks and if necessary assigns an appropriate HTML heading style, and you can also edit heading styles and page style in general. Coloured backgrounds like the one in this text box are dropped. If necessary we can use the Converter’s editing features to replace this background in seconds. Where possible, the Converter outputs an HTML table even where the PDF only contains a visual representation of a table. Let’s drag the frame of the Editing pane to widen it for a better view. You can do this with all four main view panes. Conversion may separate or drop some image elements, especially vector graphics and images that contain text and graphic layers or multiple graphic fragments. The header of this document contains an example of this – the Tecnem company logo. We can zoom the Original view to see what it should look like. Again, this can be fixed easily and quickly using the screen capture feature.