Clayton wrote:
On 07-Apr-10 14:43, webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote:
Yes, there should be some free [and easy] methods of converting PDF back
to an editable document. MS Word 2000/2003 ".doc" format would be OK
since OOo reads/writes that format very well, and MS users will have
no troubles excepting it as well. It would be nice to see converters go
directly to ODF formats instead of MS ones, since ODF is the
International default, while MS is just a want-to-be.
In a sense, what you're wishing for already exists.
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport is not
just for importing PDF into Draw fro minor editing. This extension
also adds in the Hybrid PDF functionality.
"A hybrid PDF/ODF file is a PDF file that contains an embedded ODF
source file. Hybrid PDF/ODF files will be opened in OpenOffice.org as
an ODF file without any layout changes."
So, if you use OpenOffice.org plus this extension, and create Hybrid
PDFs, you will be able to "open" the PDF and edit the embedded ODF
file and export it again as a Hybrid PDF.
C.
I am not looking for the docs to go into draw, but Writer. When you
have multi-page documents that need its text to be edited or the
graphics to be updated, then using Draw might not do the job. Do you
use Draw to create multi-page documents? Do you use it to edit Writer
documents? Draw may be OK for simple, simple, edits, but not making the
bigger changes like adding large amount of text or inserting missing
graphics and rearrange the text around it.
So Yes we need a converter or importer to allow Writer to work with the
PDF file content.
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