Need a legal act from the latest Westlaw PDF in BIGFONT for a partially sighted student's exam. Student insists on print copies of VERYBIG which is going to be a navigation nightmare as the regular print act is 477 pages long and prints out to 1.5" thick and I don't see how we can repaginate it very well.
Fortunately dept have agreed to tell us which bits stude is most likely to need as we'll provide electronic access to the WHOLE act and a reader human in the exam itself + 2-3x as long to do it in.
The PDF itself is pretty good, has proper bookmarking to navigate the sections and wossnames nicely. Shame student won't use it cos that would be quickest and easiest...
I tried saving PDF out as Word in my Acrobat Pro but that loses all the styles (grrr) and if I 'select all' and enlarge epic formatting horridness happens.
I then saved PDF out as HTML, and then was able to look at HTML in notepad++ and it had inline CSS for the styles in the document which I was able to link to the bits I want to change and those I don't using brain, Google fu to remind me of CSS. I cunningly added a comment in the HTML to tell me the 4 styles I care about for future me.
I then saved-as the HTML for each of the sections and deleted out all but the desired content from each using the PDF as my guide for each bit. Each HTML file can be opened in a web browser and printed through that to Adobe PDF and I can generate a title sheet for each and stick that on the front. Creating a small bunch of booklets the student can access quickly and easily in their desired font sizes.
Friendly academic has checked content and is getting the student's feedback on layout/size before I do the remaining 7 or so sections and send over to dept.
Not my job, but I could do it faster than I could explain it to a nice but not techie admin person. And friendly academic is on board for being named in a "yes we'd like an alternative formats department PLS!" paper
And now I've typed this out in here I'll be able to refer back to it in future