Hi :) Also 2 things; 1. It might be worth uploading your Pdfs to Google-docs and the opening them with Google-docs to save as Odt. Someone here recently said that seemed to solve all their problems with Pdfs so it would be interesting to see if yours work too. 2. if you right-click on images in a Pdf it generally allows you to "Save Graphic". Of course this way you have to place them again. 3. If you just copy&paste text straight out of the Pdf and into a document as "Unformatted text" and then apply styles it might end up with a much more consistent document but again you would have to follow 2 above in order to get all the pictures/photos/logos/images back in. Good luck and regards from Tom :)
________________________________ From: Girvin R. Herr <girvin.herr@sbcglobal.net> To: David.Ronis@McGill.CA Cc: Fernand Vanrie <sos@pmgroup.be>; users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sunday, 7 April 2013, 21:48 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem David, LibreOffice allows graphics to have placeholders in case rendering such takes a lot of time when scrolling. Maybe yours are turned off. Try Tools -> Options -> LibreOffice Writer -> View Under "Display", there should be a checkbox titled "Graphics and objects". Make sure this is checked. Hope this helps. Girvin Herr David Ronis 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 FernandIf not, consider this a feature request. David-- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@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
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