Unfortunately, when you need the output of program A as the input to B sometimes you have to jump through such hoops. I've never done it with .pdf but I've fou

Unfortunately, when you need the output of program A as the input to B sometimes you have to jump through such hoops. I've never done it with .pdf but I've fought similar battles with .xps and never fully conquered them. (And the parser was unstable as hell, besides--it would break with every version and sometimes for far lesser reasons.)