interesting ;-( ;-) Now I'm confused ... well, that's not anything new ... why should this method work for me and not not for others ;-)
Well, the more I learn of these 'glorified typewriters', the less I seem to know ;-) On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 11:09 PM, David Ronis <ro...@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca>wrote: When I open the PDF file and try to export it, all I see are graphics > formats (e.g., .bpm, .jpeg, .wfm etc.). I've tried several and they are > importable into my document (as a picture), but it seems that only one > page was exported, which is more complicated than copying and pasting > from each page of the draw object. > > In the mean time, I've discovered a free conversion site, > www.zamzar.com, and they were able to convert the PDF files to odt (with > the images as bitmaps. Now here's another strange thing: I can use LO > to open the converted file and the document looks as I expect; however, > when I insert the file (insert->file) into my larger document, only the > text is picked up, leaving blank spaces where the images should go. > > This sounds like a bug, but perhaps there is some setting that controls > this. One other thing: when I open the single/converted pdf->odt > document, the navigator shows draw objects and graphics objects as 0. > > > > On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 08:36 +0200, Fernand Vanrie wrote: > > Op 05/04/2013 22:18, David Ronis schreef: > > > I'm currently working on a large project that requires me to import > many > > > documents from my colleagues, some in word or PDF formats, into a > single > > > file. Libreoffice doesn't work if I try Insert->File... on a PDF file > > > (I get an error popup saying Error rereading the file). > > > > > > I can open the PDF file (in draw) and cut and paste each PDF page into > > > the document, but that is painful. > > > > > > Is there a way to make File->Insert work, perhaps via a macro? > > it can surly been automated, import the PDF in draw and then export the > > elements to a writerdoc, you will find a lot of code in the "Gimmicks" > > library (gettexts>>getdrawstrings) > > > > hope it helps > > > > Fernand > > > If not, > > > consider this a feature request. > > > > > > David > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted