[users] Re: PDF Conversion
In article aanlktinssvik7erg7kfkd1xkmbybsbfixtan7r7pv...@mail.gmail.com, hwfa.openoff...@googlemail.com (Harold Fuchs) wrote: *From:* Harold Fuchs hwfa.openoff...@googlemail.com *To:* users@openoffice.org *Date:* Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:49:18 + On 16 December 2010 10:41, Marcello Romani mrom...@ottotecnica.com wrote: Il 16/12/2010 11:08, Harold Fuchs ha scritto: On 16 December 2010 07:15, Marcello Romanimrom...@ottotecnica.com wrote: snip PDF is not meant for editing. Period. snip So you are saying that after first saving my PDF document (which I made using Acrobat) it's cast in stone and I can't edit it or send it to my colleague (who also has Acrobat) for review/edit. Not sure about that ... No, I'm saying PDF was not /designed/ to be edited. The fact that one can edit a PDF is to be taken as an unintended feature. Why bother to write the Acrobat software if PDF is not *designed* to be edited? Under your assumption a pseudo printer would be all that was necessary. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org The purpose of producing a pdf is twofold: to generate a platform independent document; and to produce one that can be circulated but one that is not subject to editing by other hands, so that the receiver gets a document that can be relied on to be in the form that the originator intended. Niall Martin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re[3]: Re[2]: PDF Conversion
I use the Foxit Reader's facility to Save As text versions of documents. I have the paid for version (worth having anyway), and don't know whether the free version does this. it will probably not work with documents that originated as photocopies: for that you may need an OCR programme. best wishes In article 334552512.20101210144...@gmail.com, douglas.hi...@gmail.com (Douglas Hinds) wrote: *From:* Douglas Hinds douglas.hi...@gmail.com *To:* Daniel Lewis users@openoffice.org *Date:* Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:47:08 -0600 It might help if you had stated what you meant by the results were not adequate. OO writer can now open pdf files, but it opens them in OO Draw and each and every line is included in it's own text box so the documents flow is totally lost for the purpose of editing. The letterhead didn't appear, either. And we are describing a pdf document created in writer and exported to pdf from there. What type of editing do you want to do? I want a faithful reproduction of the pdf file in a totally editable form. Where does OOo fail to do what you want? It doesn't do the above. OO opens pdf files in Draw - that means it's a graphics rather than a document file. Perhaps there's a configuration that can change this - which is the reason for my post today to users at oo.org. Any ideas? Douglas Hinds Niall Martin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] RE: Re: converting a .pdf to .odt???
In article d1e2c829c5011e4a84daf8a184dd7cda96d93...@bel1exch02.amer.sfnt.local, kevin.mclauch...@safenet-inc.com (McLauchlan, Kevin) wrote: *From:* McLauchlan, Kevin kevin.mclauch...@safenet-inc.com *To:* users@openoffice.org users@openoffice.org, rndmar...@cix.co.uk rndmar...@cix.co.uk *Date:* Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:30:04 -0400 R N D Martin [mailto:rndmar...@cix.co.uk] suggested: In article hp31iv$cj...@dough.gmane.org, b...@oblong.com.au (Bob Long) wrote: *From:* Bob Long b...@oblong.com.au *To:* users@openoffice.org *Date:* Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:01:17 +1000 Dave Stevens wrote, I have to convert a .pdf for which I no longer have access to the original .odt format. I've installed the sun-pdfimport extension and can open the file in Foxit reader which is faster than the adobe reader also has a save as facility which can be used to extract a text file from most pdfs. The resulting text file can of course be pasted into OO writer and then word processed. With the Foxit Reader installer, I encountered the same problem that I did with OpenOffice.org 3.2 installer - it insisted that I lacked sufficient rights on my own system (I have admin rights). The difference is that the OOo installer eventually relented and I got 3.2 installed despite the protests - and without any change to my system (Windows XP Pro x64). The Foxit installer just keeps crapping out after the splash-screen and the warning. Too bad. I was prepared to try it and upgrade to the pay-for version. Maybe I'll see if I can get it to install on my laptop at home, with Windoze 7 Ultimate. - Kevin Having admin rights, given the complexity of windoze, isn't the full story. You need to do fancy things sometimes like establishing ownership. Sometimes I discover that files I thought I could do what I liked with had somehow been made read only. It's never ending. Niall Martin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: converting a .pdf to .odt???
In article hp31iv$cj...@dough.gmane.org, b...@oblong.com.au (Bob Long) wrote: *From:* Bob Long b...@oblong.com.au *To:* users@openoffice.org *Date:* Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:01:17 +1000 Dave Stevens wrote, I have to convert a .pdf for which I no longer have access to the original .odt format. I've installed the sun-pdfimport extension and can open the file in Foxit reader which is faster than the adobe reader also has a save as facility which can be used to extract a text file from most pdfs. The resulting text file can of course be pasted into OO writer and then word processed. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Available language modules grayed out
I had been noticing that the spell checker wasn't working on my Windows XP system (writer), and on investigating I found that when I went to language settings/writing aids the window for available language modules was grayed out. My version of Open Office is 3.01. Any clues? Niall Martin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: Spreadsheet to word processor table
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R N D Martin) wrote: *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R N D Martin) *To:* users@openoffice.org *Date:* Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:11 +0100 (BST) In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R N D Martin) wrote: *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R N D Martin) *To:* users@openoffice.org *Date:* Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:02 +0100 (BST) In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ahromi Irawan) wrote: *From:* Ahromi Irawan [EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* users@openoffice.org *Date:* Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:00:11 +0700 Pada Tanggal 04/14/2008 09:26 PM, R N D Martin Menulis: In Lotus I am used to creating a table and then using cop and paste to batch paste direct to the cells in the table, but in OO I seem to have to paste special into the document as text, and then turn what I have pasted into a table. I find this rather long winded and awkward. Have I missed something? Niall Martin Edit | Paste Special | Formatted Text HTH -- Ahromi Irawan Cirebon Thanks. I'll try that again, but my memory is that it pasted an image of the bit of the spreadsheet rather than distributing the items over the fields. Niall Martin I repeated the operation, and found it pasted everything in column 1 of the table I created, definitely not what I wanted. Niall Martin I've had some off list correspondence with Barbara Duprey which I'm pasting below, as it seems to add something to the discussion. her second last sentence seems to enlighten. Niall Martin Thanks, Niall. Yes, it does, and I think we may be getting closer here. If you click *below* the table you're working with (I generally add an empty paragraph before my paste point), rather than inside the table, then do the Paste Special for formatted text, you should get an independent table that looks pretty much like what you had in Calc. If you want to append the data from that copy to your existing, nicely formatted table, just add an empty row at the bottom of the formatted one. Then click somewhere in the copied table, Table Select Table, and Ctrl-C. Now you have all your spreadsheet data in a good form for normal pasting. Click in the first cell (or whichever one is to be the top left of the appended data) of the empty new row of the formatted table, then Ctrl-V. Your data should populate the formatted table in the appropriate columns, adding all the rows it needs. Now you can delete the copied temporary table. That should do it, I hope, though you may have to do a little more to get the copied data to match the existing table's format. I do a very similar thing getting data from Base tables and queries into Writer tables. Unfortunately, the clipboard formats for Writer, Calc, and Base seem to be incompatible without the intermediate step. (By the way, let's keep all this on the list so others can help, too.) Niall Martin wrote: Thanks for your message.. Initially I created my table, then did paste special on to it. No go. I then explored the other options. DDE seemed to give the wrong answer. Paste special taking the formatted text option put everything in a single column of the table, instead of distributing the items in the appropriate columns. What succeeded was paste special, taking the unformatted text option, highlighting the pasted text, followed by table/convert to table. It does seem a roundabout way of doing things, particularly if having set up the table you then want to add more data to it. I hope this clarifies the process. On 16 Apr 2008 at 14:20, Barbara Duprey wrote: Date sent: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:20:01 -0500 From:Barbara Duprey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Subject: * *Re: [users] Re: Spreadsheet to word processor table* R N D Martin wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Barker) wrote: *From:* Brian Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* users@openoffice.org *Date:* Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:55:54 +0100 At 15:26 14/04/2008 +0100, Niall Martin wrote: In Lotus I am used to creating a table and then using copy and paste to batch paste direct to the cells in the table, but in OO I seem to have to paste special into the document as text, and then turn what I have pasted into a table. I find this rather long winded and awkward. Have I missed something? Possibly. I think that, in Writer, this is even easier than you hope. Don't create any table first. Instead, copy the cells from your spreadsheet and then use Edit | Paste Special... (or Ctrl+Shift+V), selecting DDE link from the options. This creates a table with your imported values, which you can then format as you require. Note
[users] Re: Spreadsheet to word processor table
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Barker) wrote: *From:* Brian Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* users@openoffice.org *Date:* Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:55:54 +0100 At 15:26 14/04/2008 +0100, Niall Martin wrote: In Lotus I am used to creating a table and then using copy and paste to batch paste direct to the cells in the table, but in OO I seem to have to paste special into the document as text, and then turn what I have pasted into a table. I find this rather long winded and awkward. Have I missed something? Possibly. I think that, in Writer, this is even easier than you hope. Don't create any table first. Instead, copy the cells from your spreadsheet and then use Edit | Paste Special... (or Ctrl+Shift+V), selecting DDE link from the options. This creates a table with your imported values, which you can then format as you require. Note that this technique actually creates a link to the source spreadsheet instead of a copy - so the spreadsheet file must continue to be available and any subsequent change to it will be reflected in your Writer document. If this is not what you need, after you have pasted the link, go to Edit | Links..., select the relevant link in the list, and press Break Link. You will now have an independent text document. I trust this helps. Brian Barker I did experiment briefly with the DDE option, but abandoned it at once, since it did not seem to be doing what I wanted. Your second paragraph I regard as a workaround which I will try some time, but still regard as rather clumsy. Thanks for your comment. Niall Martin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Re: Spreadsheet to word processor table
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R N D Martin) wrote: *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R N D Martin) *To:* users@openoffice.org *Date:* Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:02 +0100 (BST) In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ahromi Irawan) wrote: *From:* Ahromi Irawan [EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* users@openoffice.org *Date:* Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:00:11 +0700 Pada Tanggal 04/14/2008 09:26 PM, R N D Martin Menulis: In Lotus I am used to creating a table and then using cop and paste to batch paste direct to the cells in the table, but in OO I seem to have to paste special into the document as text, and then turn what I have pasted into a table. I find this rather long winded and awkward. Have I missed something? Niall Martin Edit | Paste Special | Formatted Text HTH -- Ahromi Irawan Cirebon Thanks. I'll try that again, but my memory is that it pasted an image of the bit of the spreadsheet rather than distributing the items over the fields. Niall Martin I repeated the operation, and found it pasted everything in column 1 of the table I created, definitely not what I wanted. Niall Martin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Re: Spreadsheet to word processor table
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ahromi Irawan) wrote: *From:* Ahromi Irawan [EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* users@openoffice.org *Date:* Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:00:11 +0700 Pada Tanggal 04/14/2008 09:26 PM, R N D Martin Menulis: In Lotus I am used to creating a table and then using cop and paste to batch paste direct to the cells in the table, but in OO I seem to have to paste special into the document as text, and then turn what I have pasted into a table. I find this rather long winded and awkward. Have I missed something? Niall Martin Edit | Paste Special | Formatted Text HTH -- Ahromi Irawan Cirebon Thanks. I'll try that again, but my memory is that it pasted an image of the bit of the spreadsheet rather than distributing the items over the fields. Niall Martin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Spreadsheet to word processor table
In Lotus I am used to creating a table and then using cop and paste to batch paste direct to the cells in the table, but in OO I seem to have to paste special into the document as text, and then turn what I have pasted into a table. I find this rather long winded and awkward. Have I missed something? Niall Martin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Re: Lotus-Smartsuite-Files
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ennio-Sr) wrote: *From:* Ennio-Sr [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Date:* Mon, 3 Apr 2006 00:23:31 +0200 * Peter Krueger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020406, 18:10]: Hello, I'm using Open Office Org 2.0 with Windows and Linux. Before I used Lotus Smartsuite with Windows. Can you tell me if there exists any import filters for importing Lotus-1-2-3, Lotus-Freelance and Lotus-Wordpro files into Open Office Org. If there exists any would you please tell me where I can find them. Hi Peter! Concerning Lotus .123 files, I imported them in OOo-1.1.4 following these steps: 1. Savev .123 files as .xls (Excel) files (using Lotus SSuite) 2. OOo-1.1.4 could open the so transformed .xls files, except that I had to re-write all the relative macros and make some minor adaptations to particular formulas (Help was very 'helpful' ;-) ) I've just tried OOo-2.0, which supposedly should import .123 files directly, but had no success: many of my formulas would raise the _#VALUE_ error and the resulting files are worthless. What is worse, OOo-2.0 gives the same error when I try to import the former .123 files previously successfully transformed in OOo-1.1.4 Calc (.sxc) files. HTH, regards, Ennio. -- [Perche' usare Win$ozz (dico io) se ...anche uno sciocco sa farlo. \\?// Fa' qualche cosa di cui non sei capace! (diceva Henry Miller) ] (°|°) [Why use Win$ozz (I say) if ... even a fool can do that. )=( Do something you aren't good at! (as Henry Miller used to say) ] OO.o will import lotus 123 files directly without that workaround, but sadly will not do the same for wordpro. Niall Martin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Re: installing OpenOffice on another drive?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (heidi stewart) wrote: *From:* heidi stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Date:* Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:37:17 -0500 (EST) Can we install OpenOffice onto a drive other than C? thanks from a great fan! heidi - Make Yahoo! Canada your Homepage Yahoo! Canada Homepage As the resident experts say it is perfectly possible. I do it on my system because I like to keep program separate from the OS, and the data separate from both: it helps backup and recovery from disasters. I use a system of multiple partitions on two physical disks which has worked quite well for some time. Niall Martin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Re: Word Pro
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote: *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Date:* Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:24:10 -0800 Thanks for your help. I decided my best bet would be to go a head and upgrade to Lotus Smart Suite. Thanks, Beth Miller I have used this for some years. It is a powerful suite, whose functions I have only learned the half of. Problem: IBM's maintenance work on it is only partial, and IBM makes it difficult to keep one's installation up to date. I've tended to drift away because I wanted to help my wife on her new computer and was reluctant to buy a new copy of Smartsuite: OOo came in handy. I need to use it myself if I am to be of any help. Niall Martin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
