Hi Sridhar and fellow Australian Ubuntu users,
Firstly, Sridhar, I'd like to thank you for your supportive and informative
emails and giving me good advice on what to try.
The Good News is that I *found the source file* -- it was a Micro$oft Word
format document which I had authored in Sept 2005 (which I knew from the
document's filename), and it was saved on my system without me realizing
that it was saved. I examined the properties of the PDF file I had and that
told me the title of my M$ Word document. A quick search and it was found...
lurking in a sub-directory of my Home directory.
The main work remaining for my document was to replace the crappy M$ Windows
Fonts with Linux Ubuntu fonts -- which is easy compared to the PDF
extracting dramas which I was thinking I'd need to do, if I did not find the
original document.
Thank you again for all your help!
Fond Regards,
PEW
>From Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
2008/6/29 Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 at 05:51, "Peter Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Someone mentioned that OpenOffice.org 3.0 *should* be able to edit PDF
> > files. I'm thinking that maybe my best option will be for me to wait for
> OO
> > 3 to be released and try it.
>
> You can try it now if you like:
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/pdf_import_first_milestone_reached?intcmp=1549
>
> You'll need to get the OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta for that extension to work.
> Keep in mind that it's all still a work in progress, so it won't be smooth
> as
> silk yet.
>
> More info at
> http://www.oooninja.com/2008/03/openofficeorg-30-new-features.html
>
> PDF importing is far from easy, since the format was never designed for it.
> The general way to do things is to use the OpenDocument formats for
> editing,
> and PDF for exporting.
>
> The approach I'd take is:
>
> 1. import your PDF
> 2. save as an OpenDocument format and edit there
> 3. when you're done, export to PDF
> 4. keep the OpenDocument version around for editing in the future
>
>
>
> --
> What is the sound of one hand typing?
>
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Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS
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