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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 13 07:05:47 -0700 2005 ------- It is easier to do it with a non-encrypted PDF, but not too hard to do it for an encrypted one. I agree that handling the non-encrypted case would suffice. The Adobe copyrights are the interesting issue here I think. I suppose the aim would be to make it work nicely for PDFs that contain a mix of images and text where the text is not just rendered all in graphics. That would attract several niche user groups to OOo. People that may want to add pages, add information, or reformat any of the tens of thousands of US government PDF documents for example. Also, I learned a few years ago that Postscript and PDF are nearly identical, or at least they are most of the time. This UNIX tool, ps2pdf, does the conversion super fast, since it just changes some of the headers of the PS file. So OOo's PDF import coupled with this ps2pdf code (or stand-alone tool) would bring PS along for the show. And now I am on a roll... Many, many programs natively generate PS files in UNIX, and under UNIX, Windows, and Mac any program can make a PS file thru the OS provided PS conversion utility (i.e. the printing subsystem with PS drivers). So a savy user or OOo with some macros can take any file, opened in it in its app convert it to an OOo Write doc.... hold on.... Here is another one: an OOo Write doc printer driver, perhaps an OOo Draw doc driver too. Voila! Get Adobe out of the loop, all together. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
