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roger
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 Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 4:38 am Post subject: Importing PDF-Documents in Writer |
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Hi Folks,
It's very easy to export a document in PDF. But, how (with which filter) do i import PDF-Documents?
Thks,
Roger |
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multifacet
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Don't think you can import from PDF.
Generally I export PDF pages to tiff or like format then insert in OO page by page.
At some stage there appears to have been a way of scanning in multiple pages to OO write but I was not able to locate in recent verions and have since read in another thread that multiple page scanning into OO is a functionality no longer available which is a shame as it iwould be a very useful feature. |
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roger
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| Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 9:36 pm Post subject: so, any possibilty to convert a pdf to another fileformat? |
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so, if it's not possible, how can i convert pdf's under linux to another fileformat eg rich-text? (no graphical formats...)
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avantman42
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| Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 4:09 am Post subject: Re: so, any possibilty to convert a pdf to another fileforma |
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| roger wrote: | | so, if it's not possible, how can i convert pdf's under linux to another fileformat eg rich-text? (no graphical formats...) |
Ghostscript includes a script called ps2asc (I think) which will extract the text from a PDF file and put it into a text file. Alternatively, KOffice has a PDF import filter, and can save to OOo formats. The PDF import isn't brilliant, but I don't know of any other alternatives.
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roger
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| Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 4:37 am Post subject: ps2asc |
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thx a lot, gonna try that 
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m_yates
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| GIMP will allow you to open a pdf file and save it in whatever image format you like. As previously stated, recent versions of Kword have a pdf import filter. It doesn't work too well, but is pretty useful given the lack of alternatives. |
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helmerj
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| Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 11:03 pm Post subject: koffie has an import filter for pdf |
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Since you use linux I would suggest the pdf import filter that does exist for kword that comes with koffice. It will extract all the text and paste the image as png I think. On regular text it works quite well. It utterly fails on text that comes in columns and more complex documents but it is a great start for regular stuff. Otherwise you could tryto convert a pdf to html usinf pdf2html and then read the html files with OO.
Hope this helps...
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AndrewZ
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Please try the new experimental release of PDF Import for OpenOffice.org Draw 3.0.
Roger, sorry for taking four years to reply! I hope you still enjoy OpenOffice.org. This is an old thread, but thought you or people searching the archives would still be interested.
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