Hi Roy, On 4/27/05, Roy Souther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to see a feature added to swriter and scalc that would > allow me to use the them with a PDF as a watermark background. I think > this would be a killer-app feature and a lot of people would want to use > it. (snip)
While I agree that such a feature (reading a PDF file) may be tremendously useful, it would be a pain to implement it, not to mention the time and resource required for adding support for reading PDF. This is because a PDF is read-only and non-editable by design, that is, it is not designed to be easy for an application to load for further editing. It could be done, but in my mind that would be probably just as hard as writing a OCR app that reads in texts and graphics from a hard-copy printout (this may be an exeggeration, but you see my point). Plus, we are very (x3) short-staffed when it comes to development resources... > Is there a better way to do this? Please let me know. I would give Adobe Illustrator a try if it's available. I know it's not open-source (and it's a bit pricy too), but at least it has the capability of loading a PDF file (just the first page, though, last time I tried). I don't know if any way of doing this right off-hand... Kohei P.S. This is probably off-topic here on this list, so for future reference, please use a more appropriate mailing list such as [EMAIL PROTECTED] You will probably get more replies. -- OpenOffice.org Calc contributor http://kohei.us/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
