On 2005-08-03 08:42:13, William W. Austin wrote:
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.
(snip).
I hate to follow my own post, but there was one thing I left out. I
forgot to look at the scatter plot section in the doc. They were not
preserved in the kword doc and as a result they were not in the ".odt"
file either.
I had forgotten that the first section of "plots" I had included in the
file (10 of them) were plots of 120K or so data points and I had put
them into the original file (writer - .odt file) as GIF images And
those were preserved. (I neglected to look at the others - and I guess
those others were vector drawings which did not import into kword.) So
the solution for the plots would be to convert then (import from
ImageMagick on Linux works well, but I don't use windows so don't know
of a tool to save the image there ... sorry) and then insert them into
the final doc. (BTW, the y-axis label was preserved as text from the
scatter plots, but the vertical text on the y-axis was not.)
Also the first few equations were extremely simple and were actually
done just as text, not using math -- and they seemed to be OK. But the
others done using math were not imported usefully :-(.
This lowers the rating from A- to C+ for the import, I guess, but if
you aren't doing anything with scatter plots/graphs included, this
would be a very good import tool.
So overall, kword still makes an excellent "filter" for the pdf files.
(BTW, the option in kword to "save as open office doc" format writes a
corrupted ".sxw" file which OOo can't open.)
william austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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