On 2005-08-03 03:09:58, Shoshannah Forbes wrote:
ביום רביעי, 3 באוגוסט 2005, 04:11, נכתב על ידי John W. Kennedy:
> I'm not saying it can't be done, but don't think of it as a
"filter".
> Think of it as an entire application program, and a project size to
match.
On the Other hand, kOffice *does* open PDF files, allowing editing. As
IIRC,
they do teat it as a "filter".
Wow. I'm impressed. I had just taken the current monstrosity (283
pages, 154 footnotes, 118 *large* tables [some several pages long], 115
*lage* figures [scatter plots of from 800 to 18k data points], 94
equations, several levels of headings, etc. ad nauseum]) and created an
indexed pdf file in writer from it.
So I tried kword on the resultant ".pdf" file.
It did not barf (and it opened the file using an import filter).
Everything was there - pretty much formatted as in the original. HTML
links were actually preserved.
The only things not successfully preserved:
a) tables (which originally were boxed) became lines of text with tabs.
While not perfect, it was not bad. The horizontal and vertical rules
were gone. The bridge headings (multi-column headings over other,
single-column headings) were still there but may not line up properly
(BFHD).
b) bulleted items show up with different bullets.
c) inter-paragraph spacing was changed somewhat - not bad, but not
perfect.
d) page headers and footers became text. (fixable)
I then saved the file (in kword) as an OASIS (".odt") document and
brought it up under OOo-1.9.118.
Overall, the entire doc was fully usable and pagination was preserved,
although as previously noted in other posts, there are slight
differences in the OASIS format interpretations between kword and
writer which change some formatting. Nevertheless, this was very
impressive.
Therefore, since the new release of kword (1.4) can save the file as an
OASIS (".odt") format document, this makes a really good filter for
otherwise unavailable PDF files. (IMHO, anyway).
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