Re: OT - Editing a PDF file in Windoze

2010-09-17 Thread Dazed_75
FYI, pdfimport for OpenOffice is in the Ubuntu repostitories though it supposedly is for importing a .pdf to OO Draw On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Kevin Fries wrote: > OpenOffice can deal with PDF files it you install the extension. > > http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfim

Re: OT - Editing a PDF file in Windoze

2010-09-17 Thread Tim Bogart
All, Okay. Problem addressed. I thank you all for your suggestions. Thanks again, Tim B. "It's All Good" -- Billy Ball From: Stephen To: Main PLUG discussion list Sent: Fri, September 17, 2010 11:05:53 AM Subject: Re: OT - Editing a PDF

Re: OT - Editing a PDF file in Windoze

2010-09-17 Thread Stephen
thats cool! On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Kevin Fries wrote: > OpenOffice can deal with PDF files it you install the extension. > > http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport > > HTH > Kevin > > On Sep 17, 2010 10:58 AM, "Eric Cope" wrote: > > You can make the pdf form filla

Re: OT - Editing a PDF file in Windoze

2010-09-17 Thread Kevin Fries
OpenOffice can deal with PDF files it you install the extension. http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport HTH Kevin On Sep 17, 2010 10:58 AM, "Eric Cope" wrote: You can make the pdf form fillable using Acrobat. I'm sure other tools as well, I am just not familiar with them.

Re: OT - Editing a PDF file in Windoze

2010-09-17 Thread Eric Cope
You can make the pdf form fillable using Acrobat. I'm sure other tools as well, I am just not familiar with them. Eric On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Mark Jarvis wrote: > > Try http://www.pdftoword.com/. If the file is a true PDF and not an image > embedded in a PDF file, they will convert it

Re: OT - Editing a PDF file in Windoze

2010-09-17 Thread Mark Jarvis
Try http://www.pdftoword.com/. If the file is a true PDF and not an image embedded in a PDF file, they will convert it and email the resulting word file back to you. The resulting file can be edited in Open Office or whatever. BTW, every so often someone sends me a scanned document embedded i

Re: OT - Editing a PDF file in Windoze

2010-09-17 Thread Jim March
Use The Gimp (Windows or Linux edition) to turn the PDF into a graphic file - note that you need to set the resolution to at least 300dpi on import if you want it to look OK later printed out. Do your editing as text within a graphic file, using the graphic tool of your choice. Save it back out a

OT - Editing a PDF file in Windoze

2010-09-17 Thread Tim Bogart
All, I have been asked to provide information as part of a job application. In the first part of the process, this was done on the web. Now in this next phase, I have been asked to provide information by filling out forms. They would prefer to have an electronic version of this data. Unfort