BTW, I found the PowerPC port of the pdfimport extension now. There is actually a newer build of 3.1.0rc2 available:
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua-PPC.html Clicking "Developement Snapshots" - "More Stuff: Download" gets you to http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/3.1.1rc2_20090827/ which is the 2009-08-27 build of RC2. It has the folder "extensions" which contains all the Sun extra extensions including PDF Import. (Downloading now, installing in a few minutes...) Cheers, Andreas aka Mac User #330250 ---------- Original message ---------- Subject: Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice Date: Sonntag, 30. August 2009N From: Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu> To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > On Aug 30, 2009, at 8:41 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote: > > Oups. Your right. > > So there might be a chance to find a PowerPC port at last. > > Yeah, but looking over the list of what it doesn't do, and reading > through the comments it seems pretty alpha-ish in nature. You get only what is there. A PDF file is structured in loose boxes, so the formating is kept, even if a different font is used. That is good when viewing these files, but bad when trying to reformat them. Alpha... I think it is more like a pure PDF editor. > This s somethig that's always driven me nuts...PDF is an open > standard, OSX uses it as a system file type, so WHY doesn't TextEdit > or Preview allow editing of PDF's? You can cut and paste out of them, > so clearly the content is available to the system. Why is it that no > one has a cheap PDF editor? To make a PDF file editable is harder than you think. The structure would have to be analysed to make a usable layout that can be edited. It is similar to OCR software trying to find the connected text fields. If such a software made a false assumption, all you get is garbage. (Sentences being connected where they shouldn't be...) I think, that's the main reason for this. Cheers, Andreas aka Mac User #330250 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
