Theodore Raphan wrote:
It would be helpful to be able to read a PDF file, chaange the file and write it
back in another file format. This would be important as the odt file format
becomes popular. As is there is no way to do this in Open Office. Since Open
Office already has the code to write PDF files, why can't this be inverted to
read them and put it into odt format. Then it could be written in any format.
What it looks like everybody is trying to tell you is apparently true.
The developers don't know how to translate a PDF file into a OOo writer
file at this point. I just tried Corel Draw 12 on importing a PDF with
graphics and text and exporting to a Word 97 file. Corel is well known
for file translation capabilities. Corel will import properly to its
own format , but, it can only translate the text at this time when
exporting to Word or Word Perfect formats. To expect volunteer
developers to tackle the complexity of this job at this point in time is
just too much. I opened the same PDF with Adobe Acrobat Reader and was
able to select and copy the first page graphic and paste it into a OOo
document. Then select all of the text and paste it into the OOo
document with most of the formatting included intact.
It appears to me that the latter method would suffice for what you can
get out of it. You use the "save as text" function on the file menu of
Adobe Acrobat Reader to get the text, just ascii text.
The world ain't perfect yet.
You could buy Adobe Acrobat if its real important.
No solution, good luck,
Alex
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