convert PDF to other vector file format?

[peter]

Is there any free conversion tool to convert a PDF file into a vector-based
file format that can be imported and displayed in publisher? Is there any
reason a tool like that has not or cannot be made? I wanted to ask why
publisher cannot import PDF format directly but that may be asking too much.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Is there any free conversion tool to convert a PDF file into a
vector-based file format that can be imported and displayed in
publisher? Is there any reason a tool like that has not or cannot be
made? I wanted to ask why publisher cannot import PDF format directly
but that may be asking too much.

GhostScript is available from www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
It will convert PDF to PostScript, which is a vector format when printed to
a PostScript printer (including PDF generators such as Adobe Acrobat and
PrimoPDF)

GSView is also available there - it is a graphical front end to GhostScript.