Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem

Hi :)
I tend to find importing as plain text and then applying styles saves me hours and hours.  Before 
doing that people's mad formatting would drive me nuts.  

I've managed to stop them sending me Pdfs too.  Mostly it was the argument about "being consistent" 
through-out the newsletter but it also helped to respect people's aims rather than their results 
and the positive comments from readers didn't hurt.  It depends how slavish you have to be.  This 
answer (to stand up for yourself) may not help.  

Regards from
Tom :)  






> ________________________________
> From: Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Friday, 5 April 2013, 22:18
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
>
> On 04/05/2013 04:18 PM, David Ronis wrote:
> > 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?  If not,
> > consider this a feature request.
> >
> > David
> What OS are you using?
>
> In some pdf readers you can export the entire file as a plain text file 
> and this file can be opened in Writer or imported into Calc. I do not 
> know if this would less or more painful. You would have the entire file 
> at once but would need to format the text.
>
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> Jay Lozier
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