The Fundamental Architectural Divide
To understand why converting a PDF to Microsoft Word often changes fonts, shifts table boundaries, and splits paragraphs, you must understand how both formats work under the hood.
PDF: An Absolute-Position Printing Canvas
Adobe designed the Portable Document Format (PDF) to guarantee that a document looks identical on every screen and printer in the world. To achieve this, PDF files do not store paragraphs, margins, or dynamic text flow. Instead, PDF commands state:
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