Re-importing a lost book from pdf

Hello.
About 2 years ago the mover dropped my iMac and pooched my drive. After a new drive was installed I was able to recover all my photo's but never any of the projects (Calendars, Books etc.) Now I wish to reprint a book I made, but no longer have it. I do however have the PDF. Is it possible to import the pdf, as or into a book, and still have the text editable. Or am I making a new book, and typing everything out again?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. If you can't find someone who can print the pdf into a book you might try the following:
1 - open the pdf file file and start a print job. I
2 - n the Print window click on the PDF button.
3 - select Save PDF to iPhoto option.
This will make a 200 dpi jpg image of each page in the pdf file and import it into an iPhoto album. Immediately rename the pages by the Batch Change menu option to Page -1, Page -2, etc. so in case they get rearranged you can easily reorder them.
Now create a new book and for each page select the layout that has a photo for the page background.
Click to view full size
Adding a jpg to each page will completely fill the page. It might work well enough.
If you want to obtain 300 dpi jpgs of each pdf page download this Automator workflow, Save PDF to iPhoto 300 DPI.workflow, from Toad's Cellar and place it in the HD/Library/PDF Services folder. That will show up in the PDF menu I mentioned above. This might offer a littler better resolution for the printing. Then you can reorder from Apple. To avoid this in the future see Old Toad's Tutorial #9a - Archiving an iPhoto 7/8 Book for Editing and/or Ordering at a Later Date.
If you have someone print the PDF file, like FedEx Kinkos, they may not be able to bind the book with hard covers. You'll just need to shop around.

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