On 2007-05-03 13:03:21, Robert Derman wrote:
Chris Monahan wrote:
On 03/05/07, Johnny Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2007/5/2, Chris Monahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Afraid that I think that the OP's suggestion would probably be
quite a
> project and as Lars Nooden has pointed out it might not exactly
fit in
> with what most people would use PDF's for
SNIP)
good points, except I don't know if it would make sense as an office
suite component.
also, a gander at google shows:
http://pdfedit.petricek.net/pdfedit.index_e
IMHO all that is really needed is a program to convert PDFs to ODF
files. Once they are in the ODF form, OOo can then edit them.
Good point - the koffice package already has this feature. (That's
what I use it for, anyway.)
Although the results are not very pretty (but that could be the result
of my own lack of skill and familiarity with kword), it can open a pdf
file and save it as an odt file - text, pictures and all. One major
"gotcha" gotcha is that it would appear to _my_ untrained eye that the
implementers of kword do not entirely agree with openoffice on the
interpretation of the OASIS standard.
(Hmmm. Wasn't openoffice supposed to be the 'reference implementation'
here - or did I just imagine that?)
The other problem, of course, is that everything - headers, footers,
footnotes, tables, etc. all turn into "text" and the layout can change
a bit (or sometimes a LOT). As a result, references, numbered lists,
footnotes, etc., all lose their referents. So if you want to restore
them in a complex document, it the task can lie somewhere between
tricky and virtually impossible.
TTFN,
- Bill
--
william w. austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."
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