At 14:47 10/12/2010 -0600, Douglas Hinds wrote:
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.
It may be worth saying that this is precisely what you should expect. There is no text flow in a PDF document: each line is a separate line, with no information in the file to indicate whether the lines are separate paragraphs or parts of a single paragraph. Software has at best to guess where the paragraph breaks are, and cannot always get it right.
And we are describing a pdf document created in writer and exported to pdf from there.
Well, there is your answer: go back to the .odt file that you or your correspondent saved from Writer and kept for exactly this scenario - the need for further editing. Expecting to do this from a PDF version is a bit like scanning a hard copy and expecting to get a fully formed word processor document from it.
But good luck in your endeavours nevertheless! I trust this helps. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
