Folks, I had my work vehicle burgled on the 20th, I have been dealing with loads of receipts all of them PDF's.
Libreoffice has been my go to tool, I have found that unless the PDF is an optical image, and none of these are, I can open them up and do what I want with them. First thing I do is save it to the LO format and then I start moving, high lighting or adding stuff, once I have it the way I want it or the way the insurance or PD wants to see it then I export it to a pdf. I had to learn some new stuff, but it sure has made handing all of these receipts a lot easier, then once I had it all the way I wanted it I used pdfunite and stuffed them all into one big pdf... On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 1:08 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jan 2018 10:53:35 -0800 > John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> dijo: > > >LibreOffice will import a PDF file, although you have to install an > >add-on program to get that functionality. I don't remember off the top > >of my head what the name of the add-on is, but it's in the Ubuntu > >Trusty repos. I think I found it by searching on 'LibreOffice' in > >Synaptic. Or maybe I searched on 'PDF.' > > I just poked around in my LO and couldn't find a button to import a > PDF. But when I tried to just open a PDF it worked. I opened a simple > little PDF and LO displayed it in a new document window. All the text > was in text frames, one frame per line. I could put the cursor in the > text, select some of it, and apply any character formatting I wanted. I > could also do a Ctrl-a (select all), which selected all the frames, and > then change the font to whatever I wanted. > > I think the reason that the text came up in one frame per line is > because that is how PDFs work - text is always truncated into > individual pieces. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Ph 4:13 KJV Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece. Fil 4:13 RVR1960 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
