Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
Hi :) I generally double-click on a picture to open it and then double-click on that to full-screen it. If it's larger than the screen the picture gets reduced in size to fit. If i have a lot of pics to look through then instead of Full-screening it i go to the menus and choose View - Slideshow and use the keyboard arrows to flick through or just let it run Regards from Tom :) From: Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 17 April 2013, 5:46 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem On 04/16/2013 11:22 PM, anne-ology wrote: ah, yes; and photography is such fun. On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:53 PM, les hlhow...@pacbell.net wrote: On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 11:08 -0700, Girvin Herr wrote: Tom, +5 Don't get me started on this subject! I use 640x480 (300K) on my photos, which are reasonable file sizes to attach to messages and they look good enough to me at 4x5 photo paper sizes. I have no intention of blowing my photos up to 8x10 or larger. That blowup is where the larger pixel count is good, but who does that regularly? I keep getting photos from relatives of their grandson, etc. that are so detailed I can see the pores on the kid's face, but I can't see the entire picture on the screen at once! It is frustrating to scroll around the photo on my screen to get some idea of what the photo is about. Sometimes I just don't bother. Life is too short. One thing that is enabling this megapixel bloat is the increasing size of the memory cards. For example, my camera, at 640x480 (300K), is showing photos available with a few shots already on it and with an 8GB card. At 4608x3456 (16M), it is down to 1877 photos. Yes, it is a 16 megapixel camera. Girvin Why not open the file in a viewer that lets you zoom the size? Gwenview is one, GIMP is another. Probably a whole batch, some better than others. --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. A.M. Greeley -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
Tom, Thanks, I will try that double-click next time. Girvin On 04/17/2013 02:21 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I generally double-click on a picture to open it and then double-click on that to full-screen it. If it's larger than the screen the picture gets reduced in size to fit. If i have a lot of pics to look through then instead of Full-screening it i go to the menus and choose View - Slideshow and use the keyboard arrows to flick through or just let it run Regards from Tom :) snip -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 22:22 -0500, anne-ology wrote: ah, yes; and photography is such fun. On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:53 PM, les hlhow...@pacbell.net wrote: On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 11:08 -0700, Girvin Herr wrote: Tom, +5 Don't get me started on this subject! I use 640x480 (300K) on my photos, which are reasonable file sizes to attach to messages and they look good enough to me at 4x5 photo paper sizes. I have no intention of blowing my photos up to 8x10 or larger. That blowup is where the larger pixel count is good, but who does that regularly? I keep getting photos from relatives of their grandson, etc. that are so detailed I can see the pores on the kid's face, but I can't see the entire picture on the screen at once! It is frustrating to scroll around the photo on my screen to get some idea of what the photo is about. Sometimes I just don't bother. Life is too short. One thing that is enabling this megapixel bloat is the increasing size of the memory cards. For example, my camera, at 640x480 (300K), is showing photos available with a few shots already on it and with an 8GB card. At 4608x3456 (16M), it is down to 1877 photos. Yes, it is a 16 megapixel camera. Girvin On 04/16/2013 04:03 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) They do and it does. :D This mega pixel malarky is hilarious. Everyone else is racing to get more and more mega-pixels (is 12 or 16 mega-pixels the standard issue now?) so that they can have more noise and distortions and file-sizes like a herd of elephants trying to stampeded down my phone-line. One company is trying to market a 4 Mega-pixels camera that gives a better quality image by not adding in random fuzziness. However everyone is going to say this 16 megapixels MUST be better than 4 right? 4 is old isn't it?. meanwhile we getting stunning photos of Mars done on 'old' 2 megapixels cameras. It wouldn't be quite so bad if mega-pixel really meant anything. It clearly does NOT mean 1,000 pixels (or 1,024 in computers) Regards from Tom :) From: Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 16 April 2013, 2:45 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Most on-line dictionaries (in the top 10 according to a google search) agree that A neologism is a newly coined term, word, or phrase, that may be in the process of entering common use, but has not yet been accepted into mainstream but my fav is Mirriam-Webster's bucking the trend amusingly a meaningless word coined by a psychotic. Even though it is not apt it's still quietly amusing, to me at least, sorry Felmon bud! :) no problem but seriously, if the people in the telly were constantly sending _you_ neologisms, don't pretend it wouldn't unsettle you a bit too. F. Regards from Tom :) From: Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 15 April 2013, 21:59 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: very interesting, yes indeed ;-) well, the more I read this list, 'the more I seem to learn, yet the stupider I feel' ;-) (the glorified typewriter has so surpassed me) I note you've used a 'new' word; acronymonious seems to fit well in this saga - yet I hope you didn't mis-type acrimonious ;-) (oh, surely not) I did not mistype. I went neologistic on you. F. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: yikes, sounds as if I need further information - or need to keep studying ... ... ... ;-) not sure how the further discussion would be relevant to you if you just want to use the tool. the link I gave you explains the things pdftk can do. you can then decide if it might be useful. the next step is to determine if you find it convenient to use. of course, if you are also interested in how the tool is built, then that's a different matter. Please update re. this / these tks whenever; I'll stay tuned ;-) Ah, acronyms ;-) tk := http://www.acronymfinder.com/**TK.html http://www.acronymfinder.com/TK.html (well, while waiting to understand all this, my mind tends to wander - puns are so much fun :-) ) don't mean to be acronymonious about it but all disciplines and occupations use abbreviations and have specialist dictionaries
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
Hi :) They do and it does. :D This mega pixel malarky is hilarious. Everyone else is racing to get more and more mega-pixels (is 12 or 16 mega-pixels the standard issue now?) so that they can have more noise and distortions and file-sizes like a herd of elephants trying to stampeded down my phone-line. One company is trying to market a 4 Mega-pixels camera that gives a better quality image by not adding in random fuzziness. However everyone is going to say this 16 megapixels MUST be better than 4 right? 4 is old isn't it?. meanwhile we getting stunning photos of Mars done on 'old' 2 megapixels cameras. It wouldn't be quite so bad if mega-pixel really meant anything. It clearly does NOT mean 1,000 pixels (or 1,024 in computers) Regards from Tom :) From: Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 16 April 2013, 2:45 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Most on-line dictionaries (in the top 10 according to a google search) agree that A neologism is a newly coined term, word, or phrase, that may be in the process of entering common use, but has not yet been accepted into mainstream but my fav is Mirriam-Webster's bucking the trend amusingly a meaningless word coined by a psychotic. Even though it is not apt it's still quietly amusing, to me at least, sorry Felmon bud! :) no problem but seriously, if the people in the telly were constantly sending _you_ neologisms, don't pretend it wouldn't unsettle you a bit too. F. Regards from Tom :) From: Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 15 April 2013, 21:59 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: very interesting, yes indeed ;-) well, the more I read this list, 'the more I seem to learn, yet the stupider I feel' ;-) (the glorified typewriter has so surpassed me) I note you've used a 'new' word; acronymonious seems to fit well in this saga - yet I hope you didn't mis-type acrimonious ;-) (oh, surely not) I did not mistype. I went neologistic on you. F. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: yikes, sounds as if I need further information - or need to keep studying ... ... ... ;-) not sure how the further discussion would be relevant to you if you just want to use the tool. the link I gave you explains the things pdftk can do. you can then decide if it might be useful. the next step is to determine if you find it convenient to use. of course, if you are also interested in how the tool is built, then that's a different matter. Please update re. this / these tks whenever; I'll stay tuned ;-) Ah, acronyms ;-) tk := http://www.acronymfinder.com/**TK.htmlhttp://www.acronymfinder.com/TK.html (well, while waiting to understand all this, my mind tends to wander - puns are so much fun :-) ) don't mean to be acronymonious about it but all disciplines and occupations use abbreviations and have specialist dictionaries - general-purpose dictionaries won't do. F. On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Sun, 14 Apr 2013, Girvin Herr wrote: Felmon, Looks like pdftk is written in Java. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Pdftk https://en.wikipedia.**org/wiki/Pdftkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftk So the gui (Graphical User Interface) is whatever the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) interfaces with. From my experience, it isn't pretty, but functional. I noticed there are some other source files and some 3rd-party code in the package that I did not take time to investigate, and it takes Gcc to build it. But one of the big ideas of Java is that it contains its own gui code, so the programmer's effort is greatly reduced. I would be surprised if pdftk does not use the standard Java gui. Girvin Herr good to know, especially about the '3rd-party code'. makes sense the gui would be in java so it can run on various platforms. I don't however foresee myself invoking the gui unless I'm working off of Windows or something. I'll look but I bet there's a command-line version for Windows too. F. On 04/13/2013 11:24 PM, Felmon Davis wrote: On Sat, 13 Apr 2013, Tom Davies wrote: snip I'm only familiar with pdftk as a command-line tool; thus I was confused by the discussion of desktop environments. it does have a gui interface (or several?) and then there are the Windows and Mac versions. I don't know what is used to make the gui interface on Linux. Felmon snip -- Felmon Davis
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
you're cute and knowledgeable - a great combination! On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: very interesting, yes indeed ;-) well, the more I read this list, 'the more I seem to learn, yet the stupider I feel' ;-) (the glorified typewriter has so surpassed me) I note you've used a 'new' word; acronymonious seems to fit well in this saga - yet I hope you didn't mis-type acrimonious ;-) (oh, surely not) I did not mistype. I went neologistic on you. F. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: yikes, sounds as if I need further information - or need to keep studying ... ... ... ;-) not sure how the further discussion would be relevant to you if you just want to use the tool. the link I gave you explains the things pdftk can do. you can then decide if it might be useful. the next step is to determine if you find it convenient to use. of course, if you are also interested in how the tool is built, then that's a different matter. Please update re. this / these tks whenever; I'll stay tuned ;-) Ah, acronyms ;-) tk := http://www.acronymfinder.com/TK.htmlhttp://www.acronymfinder.com/**TK.html http://www.**acronymfinder.com/TK.htmlhttp://www.acronymfinder.com/TK.html (well, while waiting to understand all this, my mind tends to wander - puns are so much fun :-) ) don't mean to be acronymonious about it but all disciplines and occupations use abbreviations and have specialist dictionaries - general-purpose dictionaries won't do. F. On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Sun, 14 Apr 2013, Girvin Herr wrote: Felmon, Looks like pdftk is written in Java. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Pdftkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftk https://en.**wikipedia.org/wiki/**Pdftkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Pdftk https://en.wikipedia.**org/**wiki/Pdftkhttps://en.** wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftk So the gui (Graphical User Interface) is whatever the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) interfaces with. From my experience, it isn't pretty, but functional. I noticed there are some other source files and some 3rd-party code in the package that I did not take time to investigate, and it takes Gcc to build it. But one of the big ideas of Java is that it contains its own gui code, so the programmer's effort is greatly reduced. I would be surprised if pdftk does not use the standard Java gui. Girvin Herr good to know, especially about the '3rd-party code'. makes sense the gui would be in java so it can run on various platforms. I don't however foresee myself invoking the gui unless I'm working off of Windows or something. I'll look but I bet there's a command-line version for Windows too. F. On 04/13/2013 11:24 PM, Felmon Davis wrote: On Sat, 13 Apr 2013, Tom Davies wrote: snip I'm only familiar with pdftk as a command-line tool; thus I was confused by the discussion of desktop environments. it does have a gui interface (or several?) and then there are the Windows and Mac versions. I don't know what is used to make the gui interface on Linux. Felmon snip -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
ah, yes; and photography is such fun. On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:53 PM, les hlhow...@pacbell.net wrote: On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 11:08 -0700, Girvin Herr wrote: Tom, +5 Don't get me started on this subject! I use 640x480 (300K) on my photos, which are reasonable file sizes to attach to messages and they look good enough to me at 4x5 photo paper sizes. I have no intention of blowing my photos up to 8x10 or larger. That blowup is where the larger pixel count is good, but who does that regularly? I keep getting photos from relatives of their grandson, etc. that are so detailed I can see the pores on the kid's face, but I can't see the entire picture on the screen at once! It is frustrating to scroll around the photo on my screen to get some idea of what the photo is about. Sometimes I just don't bother. Life is too short. One thing that is enabling this megapixel bloat is the increasing size of the memory cards. For example, my camera, at 640x480 (300K), is showing photos available with a few shots already on it and with an 8GB card. At 4608x3456 (16M), it is down to 1877 photos. Yes, it is a 16 megapixel camera. Girvin On 04/16/2013 04:03 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) They do and it does. :D This mega pixel malarky is hilarious. Everyone else is racing to get more and more mega-pixels (is 12 or 16 mega-pixels the standard issue now?) so that they can have more noise and distortions and file-sizes like a herd of elephants trying to stampeded down my phone-line. One company is trying to market a 4 Mega-pixels camera that gives a better quality image by not adding in random fuzziness. However everyone is going to say this 16 megapixels MUST be better than 4 right? 4 is old isn't it?. meanwhile we getting stunning photos of Mars done on 'old' 2 megapixels cameras. It wouldn't be quite so bad if mega-pixel really meant anything. It clearly does NOT mean 1,000 pixels (or 1,024 in computers) Regards from Tom :) From: Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 16 April 2013, 2:45 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Most on-line dictionaries (in the top 10 according to a google search) agree that A neologism is a newly coined term, word, or phrase, that may be in the process of entering common use, but has not yet been accepted into mainstream but my fav is Mirriam-Webster's bucking the trend amusingly a meaningless word coined by a psychotic. Even though it is not apt it's still quietly amusing, to me at least, sorry Felmon bud! :) no problem but seriously, if the people in the telly were constantly sending _you_ neologisms, don't pretend it wouldn't unsettle you a bit too. F. Regards from Tom :) From: Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 15 April 2013, 21:59 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: very interesting, yes indeed ;-) well, the more I read this list, 'the more I seem to learn, yet the stupider I feel' ;-) (the glorified typewriter has so surpassed me) I note you've used a 'new' word; acronymonious seems to fit well in this saga - yet I hope you didn't mis-type acrimonious ;-) (oh, surely not) I did not mistype. I went neologistic on you. F. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: yikes, sounds as if I need further information - or need to keep studying ... ... ... ;-) not sure how the further discussion would be relevant to you if you just want to use the tool. the link I gave you explains the things pdftk can do. you can then decide if it might be useful. the next step is to determine if you find it convenient to use. of course, if you are also interested in how the tool is built, then that's a different matter. Please update re. this / these tks whenever; I'll stay tuned ;-) Ah, acronyms ;-) tk := http://www.acronymfinder.com/**TK.html http://www.acronymfinder.com/TK.html (well, while waiting to understand all this, my mind tends to wander - puns are so much fun :-) ) don't mean to be acronymonious about it but all disciplines and occupations use abbreviations and have specialist dictionaries - general-purpose dictionaries won't do. F. On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Sun, 14 Apr 2013, Girvin Herr wrote: Felmon
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
On 04/16/2013 11:22 PM, anne-ology wrote: ah, yes; and photography is such fun. On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:53 PM, les hlhow...@pacbell.net wrote: On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 11:08 -0700, Girvin Herr wrote: Tom, +5 Don't get me started on this subject! I use 640x480 (300K) on my photos, which are reasonable file sizes to attach to messages and they look good enough to me at 4x5 photo paper sizes. I have no intention of blowing my photos up to 8x10 or larger. That blowup is where the larger pixel count is good, but who does that regularly? I keep getting photos from relatives of their grandson, etc. that are so detailed I can see the pores on the kid's face, but I can't see the entire picture on the screen at once! It is frustrating to scroll around the photo on my screen to get some idea of what the photo is about. Sometimes I just don't bother. Life is too short. One thing that is enabling this megapixel bloat is the increasing size of the memory cards. For example, my camera, at 640x480 (300K), is showing photos available with a few shots already on it and with an 8GB card. At 4608x3456 (16M), it is down to 1877 photos. Yes, it is a 16 megapixel camera. Girvin Why not open the file in a viewer that lets you zoom the size? Gwenview is one, GIMP is another. Probably a whole batch, some better than others. --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. A.M. Greeley -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
yikes, sounds as if I need further information - or need to keep studying ... ... ... ;-) Please update re. this / these tks whenever; I'll stay tuned ;-) Ah, acronyms ;-) tk := http://www.acronymfinder.com/TK.html (well, while waiting to understand all this, my mind tends to wander - puns are so much fun :-) ) On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Sun, 14 Apr 2013, Girvin Herr wrote: Felmon, Looks like pdftk is written in Java. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Pdftkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftk So the gui (Graphical User Interface) is whatever the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) interfaces with. From my experience, it isn't pretty, but functional. I noticed there are some other source files and some 3rd-party code in the package that I did not take time to investigate, and it takes Gcc to build it. But one of the big ideas of Java is that it contains its own gui code, so the programmer's effort is greatly reduced. I would be surprised if pdftk does not use the standard Java gui. Girvin Herr good to know, especially about the '3rd-party code'. makes sense the gui would be in java so it can run on various platforms. I don't however foresee myself invoking the gui unless I'm working off of Windows or something. I'll look but I bet there's a command-line version for Windows too. F. On 04/13/2013 11:24 PM, Felmon Davis wrote: On Sat, 13 Apr 2013, Tom Davies wrote: snip I'm only familiar with pdftk as a command-line tool; thus I was confused by the discussion of desktop environments. it does have a gui interface (or several?) and then there are the Windows and Mac versions. I don't know what is used to make the gui interface on Linux. Felmon snip -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: yikes, sounds as if I need further information - or need to keep studying ... ... ... ;-) not sure how the further discussion would be relevant to you if you just want to use the tool. the link I gave you explains the things pdftk can do. you can then decide if it might be useful. the next step is to determine if you find it convenient to use. of course, if you are also interested in how the tool is built, then that's a different matter. Please update re. this / these tks whenever; I'll stay tuned ;-) Ah, acronyms ;-) tk := http://www.acronymfinder.com/TK.html (well, while waiting to understand all this, my mind tends to wander - puns are so much fun :-) ) don't mean to be acronymonious about it but all disciplines and occupations use abbreviations and have specialist dictionaries - general-purpose dictionaries won't do. F. On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Sun, 14 Apr 2013, Girvin Herr wrote: Felmon, Looks like pdftk is written in Java. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Pdftkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftk So the gui (Graphical User Interface) is whatever the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) interfaces with. From my experience, it isn't pretty, but functional. I noticed there are some other source files and some 3rd-party code in the package that I did not take time to investigate, and it takes Gcc to build it. But one of the big ideas of Java is that it contains its own gui code, so the programmer's effort is greatly reduced. I would be surprised if pdftk does not use the standard Java gui. Girvin Herr good to know, especially about the '3rd-party code'. makes sense the gui would be in java so it can run on various platforms. I don't however foresee myself invoking the gui unless I'm working off of Windows or something. I'll look but I bet there's a command-line version for Windows too. F. On 04/13/2013 11:24 PM, Felmon Davis wrote: On Sat, 13 Apr 2013, Tom Davies wrote: snip I'm only familiar with pdftk as a command-line tool; thus I was confused by the discussion of desktop environments. it does have a gui interface (or several?) and then there are the Windows and Mac versions. I don't know what is used to make the gui interface on Linux. Felmon snip -- Felmon Davis Appearances are not everything; it just looks like they are. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
I always try to expand acronyms when I first use them in text. That is good writing form and good communication, which is what writing is all about. However, it Is beyond the scope of these messages to describe the terms. That task is left as an exercise to the student. I always say: when I stop learning, it is time to bury me. Oh, pdftk is probably an acronym for Portable Document Format Tool Kit. But it is a software program, so the term is atomic, meaning it is inseparable, and it can mean anything the programmer wants it to. Class dismissed! Girvin Herr On 04/15/2013 08:26 AM, anne-ology wrote: yikes, sounds as if I need further information - or need to keep studying ... ... ... ;-) Please update re. this / these tks whenever; I'll stay tuned ;-) Ah, acronyms ;-) tk := http://www.acronymfinder.com/TK.html (well, while waiting to understand all this, my mind tends to wander - puns are so much fun :-) ) On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Sun, 14 Apr 2013, Girvin Herr wrote: Felmon, Looks like pdftk is written in Java. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Pdftkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftk So the gui (Graphical User Interface) is whatever the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) interfaces with. From my experience, it isn't pretty, but functional. I noticed there are some other source files and some 3rd-party code in the package that I did not take time to investigate, and it takes Gcc to build it. But one of the big ideas of Java is that it contains its own gui code, so the programmer's effort is greatly reduced. I would be surprised if pdftk does not use the standard Java gui. Girvin Herr good to know, especially about the '3rd-party code'. makes sense the gui would be in java so it can run on various platforms. I don't however foresee myself invoking the gui unless I'm working off of Windows or something. I'll look but I bet there's a command-line version for Windows too. F. On 04/13/2013 11:24 PM, Felmon Davis wrote: On Sat, 13 Apr 2013, Tom Davies wrote: snip I'm only familiar with pdftk as a command-line tool; thus I was confused by the discussion of desktop environments. it does have a gui interface (or several?) and then there are the Windows and Mac versions. I don't know what is used to make the gui interface on Linux. Felmon snip -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
very interesting, yes indeed ;-) well, the more I read this list, 'the more I seem to learn, yet the stupider I feel' ;-) (the glorified typewriter has so surpassed me) I note you've used a 'new' word; acronymonious seems to fit well in this saga - yet I hope you didn't mis-type acrimonious ;-) (oh, surely not) On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: yikes, sounds as if I need further information - or need to keep studying ... ... ... ;-) not sure how the further discussion would be relevant to you if you just want to use the tool. the link I gave you explains the things pdftk can do. you can then decide if it might be useful. the next step is to determine if you find it convenient to use. of course, if you are also interested in how the tool is built, then that's a different matter. Please update re. this / these tks whenever; I'll stay tuned ;-) Ah, acronyms ;-) tk := http://www.acronymfinder.com/**TK.htmlhttp://www.acronymfinder.com/TK.html (well, while waiting to understand all this, my mind tends to wander - puns are so much fun :-) ) don't mean to be acronymonious about it but all disciplines and occupations use abbreviations and have specialist dictionaries - general-purpose dictionaries won't do. F. On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Sun, 14 Apr 2013, Girvin Herr wrote: Felmon, Looks like pdftk is written in Java. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Pdftk https://en.wikipedia.**org/wiki/Pdftkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftk So the gui (Graphical User Interface) is whatever the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) interfaces with. From my experience, it isn't pretty, but functional. I noticed there are some other source files and some 3rd-party code in the package that I did not take time to investigate, and it takes Gcc to build it. But one of the big ideas of Java is that it contains its own gui code, so the programmer's effort is greatly reduced. I would be surprised if pdftk does not use the standard Java gui. Girvin Herr good to know, especially about the '3rd-party code'. makes sense the gui would be in java so it can run on various platforms. I don't however foresee myself invoking the gui unless I'm working off of Windows or something. I'll look but I bet there's a command-line version for Windows too. F. On 04/13/2013 11:24 PM, Felmon Davis wrote: On Sat, 13 Apr 2013, Tom Davies wrote: snip I'm only familiar with pdftk as a command-line tool; thus I was confused by the discussion of desktop environments. it does have a gui interface (or several?) and then there are the Windows and Mac versions. I don't know what is used to make the gui interface on Linux. Felmon snip -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: very interesting, yes indeed ;-) well, the more I read this list, 'the more I seem to learn, yet the stupider I feel' ;-) (the glorified typewriter has so surpassed me) I note you've used a 'new' word; acronymonious seems to fit well in this saga - yet I hope you didn't mis-type acrimonious ;-) (oh, surely not) I did not mistype. I went neologistic on you. F. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: yikes, sounds as if I need further information - or need to keep studying ... ... ... ;-) not sure how the further discussion would be relevant to you if you just want to use the tool. the link I gave you explains the things pdftk can do. you can then decide if it might be useful. the next step is to determine if you find it convenient to use. of course, if you are also interested in how the tool is built, then that's a different matter. Please update re. this / these tks whenever; I'll stay tuned ;-) Ah, acronyms ;-) tk := http://www.acronymfinder.com/**TK.htmlhttp://www.acronymfinder.com/TK.html (well, while waiting to understand all this, my mind tends to wander - puns are so much fun :-) ) don't mean to be acronymonious about it but all disciplines and occupations use abbreviations and have specialist dictionaries - general-purpose dictionaries won't do. F. On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Sun, 14 Apr 2013, Girvin Herr wrote: Felmon, Looks like pdftk is written in Java. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Pdftk https://en.wikipedia.**org/wiki/Pdftkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftk So the gui (Graphical User Interface) is whatever the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) interfaces with. From my experience, it isn't pretty, but functional. I noticed there are some other source files and some 3rd-party code in the package that I did not take time to investigate, and it takes Gcc to build it. But one of the big ideas of Java is that it contains its own gui code, so the programmer's effort is greatly reduced. I would be surprised if pdftk does not use the standard Java gui. Girvin Herr good to know, especially about the '3rd-party code'. makes sense the gui would be in java so it can run on various platforms. I don't however foresee myself invoking the gui unless I'm working off of Windows or something. I'll look but I bet there's a command-line version for Windows too. F. On 04/13/2013 11:24 PM, Felmon Davis wrote: On Sat, 13 Apr 2013, Tom Davies wrote: snip I'm only familiar with pdftk as a command-line tool; thus I was confused by the discussion of desktop environments. it does have a gui interface (or several?) and then there are the Windows and Mac versions. I don't know what is used to make the gui interface on Linux. Felmon snip -- Felmon Davis -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
Hi :) Most on-line dictionaries (in the top 10 according to a google search) agree that A neologism is a newly coined term, word, or phrase, that may be in the process of entering common use, but has not yet been accepted into mainstream but my fav is Mirriam-Webster's bucking the trend amusingly a meaningless word coined by a psychotic. Even though it is not apt it's still quietly amusing, to me at least, sorry Felmon bud! :) Regards from Tom :) From: Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 15 April 2013, 21:59 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: very interesting, yes indeed ;-) well, the more I read this list, 'the more I seem to learn, yet the stupider I feel' ;-) (the glorified typewriter has so surpassed me) I note you've used a 'new' word; acronymonious seems to fit well in this saga - yet I hope you didn't mis-type acrimonious ;-) (oh, surely not) I did not mistype. I went neologistic on you. F. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: yikes, sounds as if I need further information - or need to keep studying ... ... ... ;-) not sure how the further discussion would be relevant to you if you just want to use the tool. the link I gave you explains the things pdftk can do. you can then decide if it might be useful. the next step is to determine if you find it convenient to use. of course, if you are also interested in how the tool is built, then that's a different matter. Please update re. this / these tks whenever; I'll stay tuned ;-) Ah, acronyms ;-) tk := http://www.acronymfinder.com/**TK.htmlhttp://www.acronymfinder.com/TK.html (well, while waiting to understand all this, my mind tends to wander - puns are so much fun :-) ) don't mean to be acronymonious about it but all disciplines and occupations use abbreviations and have specialist dictionaries - general-purpose dictionaries won't do. F. On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Sun, 14 Apr 2013, Girvin Herr wrote: Felmon, Looks like pdftk is written in Java. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Pdftk https://en.wikipedia.**org/wiki/Pdftkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftk So the gui (Graphical User Interface) is whatever the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) interfaces with. From my experience, it isn't pretty, but functional. I noticed there are some other source files and some 3rd-party code in the package that I did not take time to investigate, and it takes Gcc to build it. But one of the big ideas of Java is that it contains its own gui code, so the programmer's effort is greatly reduced. I would be surprised if pdftk does not use the standard Java gui. Girvin Herr good to know, especially about the '3rd-party code'. makes sense the gui would be in java so it can run on various platforms. I don't however foresee myself invoking the gui unless I'm working off of Windows or something. I'll look but I bet there's a command-line version for Windows too. F. On 04/13/2013 11:24 PM, Felmon Davis wrote: On Sat, 13 Apr 2013, Tom Davies wrote: snip I'm only familiar with pdftk as a command-line tool; thus I was confused by the discussion of desktop environments. it does have a gui interface (or several?) and then there are the Windows and Mac versions. I don't know what is used to make the gui interface on Linux. Felmon snip -- Felmon Davis -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Most on-line dictionaries (in the top 10 according to a google search) agree that A neologism is a newly coined term, word, or phrase, that may be in the process of entering common use, but has not yet been accepted into mainstream but my fav is Mirriam-Webster's bucking the trend amusingly a meaningless word coined by a psychotic. Even though it is not apt it's still quietly amusing, to me at least, sorry Felmon bud! :) no problem but seriously, if the people in the telly were constantly sending _you_ neologisms, don't pretend it wouldn't unsettle you a bit too. F. Regards from Tom :) From: Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 15 April 2013, 21:59 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: very interesting, yes indeed ;-) well, the more I read this list, 'the more I seem to learn, yet the stupider I feel' ;-) (the glorified typewriter has so surpassed me) I note you've used a 'new' word; acronymonious seems to fit well in this saga - yet I hope you didn't mis-type acrimonious ;-) (oh, surely not) I did not mistype. I went neologistic on you. F. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: yikes, sounds as if I need further information - or need to keep studying ... ... ... ;-) not sure how the further discussion would be relevant to you if you just want to use the tool. the link I gave you explains the things pdftk can do. you can then decide if it might be useful. the next step is to determine if you find it convenient to use. of course, if you are also interested in how the tool is built, then that's a different matter. Please update re. this / these tks whenever; I'll stay tuned ;-) Ah, acronyms ;-) tk := http://www.acronymfinder.com/**TK.htmlhttp://www.acronymfinder.com/TK.html (well, while waiting to understand all this, my mind tends to wander - puns are so much fun :-) ) don't mean to be acronymonious about it but all disciplines and occupations use abbreviations and have specialist dictionaries - general-purpose dictionaries won't do. F. On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Sun, 14 Apr 2013, Girvin Herr wrote: Felmon, Looks like pdftk is written in Java. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Pdftk https://en.wikipedia.**org/wiki/Pdftkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftk So the gui (Graphical User Interface) is whatever the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) interfaces with. From my experience, it isn't pretty, but functional. I noticed there are some other source files and some 3rd-party code in the package that I did not take time to investigate, and it takes Gcc to build it. But one of the big ideas of Java is that it contains its own gui code, so the programmer's effort is greatly reduced. I would be surprised if pdftk does not use the standard Java gui. Girvin Herr good to know, especially about the '3rd-party code'. makes sense the gui would be in java so it can run on various platforms. I don't however foresee myself invoking the gui unless I'm working off of Windows or something. I'll look but I bet there's a command-line version for Windows too. F. On 04/13/2013 11:24 PM, Felmon Davis wrote: On Sat, 13 Apr 2013, Tom Davies wrote: snip I'm only familiar with pdftk as a command-line tool; thus I was confused by the discussion of desktop environments. it does have a gui interface (or several?) and then there are the Windows and Mac versions. I don't know what is used to make the gui interface on Linux. Felmon snip -- Felmon Davis -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Felmon Davis Chastity and virtue are their own punishment. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
Felmon, Looks like pdftk is written in Java. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftk So the gui (Graphical User Interface) is whatever the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) interfaces with. From my experience, it isn't pretty, but functional. I noticed there are some other source files and some 3rd-party code in the package that I did not take time to investigate, and it takes Gcc to build it. But one of the big ideas of Java is that it contains its own gui code, so the programmer's effort is greatly reduced. I would be surprised if pdftk does not use the standard Java gui. Girvin Herr On 04/13/2013 11:24 PM, Felmon Davis wrote: On Sat, 13 Apr 2013, Tom Davies wrote: snip I'm only familiar with pdftk as a command-line tool; thus I was confused by the discussion of desktop environments. it does have a gui interface (or several?) and then there are the Windows and Mac versions. I don't know what is used to make the gui interface on Linux. Felmon snip -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013, Girvin Herr wrote: Felmon, Looks like pdftk is written in Java. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftk So the gui (Graphical User Interface) is whatever the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) interfaces with. From my experience, it isn't pretty, but functional. I noticed there are some other source files and some 3rd-party code in the package that I did not take time to investigate, and it takes Gcc to build it. But one of the big ideas of Java is that it contains its own gui code, so the programmer's effort is greatly reduced. I would be surprised if pdftk does not use the standard Java gui. Girvin Herr good to know, especially about the '3rd-party code'. makes sense the gui would be in java so it can run on various platforms. I don't however foresee myself invoking the gui unless I'm working off of Windows or something. I'll look but I bet there's a command-line version for Windows too. F. On 04/13/2013 11:24 PM, Felmon Davis wrote: On Sat, 13 Apr 2013, Tom Davies wrote: snip I'm only familiar with pdftk as a command-line tool; thus I was confused by the discussion of desktop environments. it does have a gui interface (or several?) and then there are the Windows and Mac versions. I don't know what is used to make the gui interface on Linux. Felmon snip -- Felmon Davis Live your live such that you need not hide your diary. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
Hi :) I had a feeling i was missing some wrinkles by accident and made a few mistakes. There were a few wrinkles i was trying to skate over to try to make it simpler to understand. 1. I didn't know tk = tool kit, and gtk = gnome tool kit, that makes more sense of it to me now. 2. People did really seem to like the older versions of KDE and Gnome and a lot of people were somewhat shocked by how they both made such radical changes in their newer versions. They both seem to have settled down a lot and become more accepted now so it might be worth leapfrogging over their .0 releases and going straight to their more recent versions. Xfce is quite popular but perhaps that is a warning? Perhaps they plan to do something radical? As it is right now it's a tad heavier (ie more fully functional) than i expected. Enlightenment, Openbox, LxDE and tons of others are far, far lighter. I enjoyed Enlightenment but only used it briefly. LxDE looked far too much like Windows in the implementation i used and i hated all the blues so much i couldn't bear it long enough to change them! Oddly i am quite happy with Unity now although i can understand why others don't. It kinda pre-empted Win8's UI but the implementation is less rammed down people's throats and gives us something a more familiar by default. So if you are on Xfce can i recommend you try LxDE and Enlightenment (assuming it's not a pita to just quickly try them! I'm not sure if it would involve compiling things and if it did i would avoid them) 3. Superfluous or not is not the issue. Some apps just have Qt at the front of their names, eg QtPartEd as the KDE equivalent of GPartEd with both using PartEd as their main back-end. Other apps use a K, such as Kate; whereas Gnome apps use a G, such as Gedit. I tried to avoid mentioning apps that don't have those letters as indicators and i'm sure some apps accidentally use those letters without realising they have significance or as a deliberate attempt to buck against the 'rules'. (not really rules at all of course, possibly not even unofficial guidelines) Gtk apps do run in KDE but they don't look pretty. KDE gives them Win95-style borders and title-bars doesn't it? My neighbour grumbles on about it as tho it meant the end of the world. The other way around, Qt on Gtk-based DEs - I'm not sure if there are still some Qt apps that don't run in some Gnome DE's or going wider to other Gtk-based ones but usually i would use the Gnome equivalent of such programs. I'm quite happy with Brasero, for example. It does more than i need. Sometimes i even prefer GnomeBaker. I really don't need the sophisticated tools built-into the KDE nearest equivalent. It's interesting to hear that Qt was proprietary!! A bit of a shocker for me! Surely it is OpenSource by now? Regards from Tom :) From: Girvin Herr girvin.h...@sbcglobal.net Tom, My 2-cents. On 04/12/2013 10:15 AM, Tom Davies wrote: snip / tk stands for Tool Kit, so truncating GTK (Gnome Tool Kit) is not entirely proper. snip / I have switched to Xfce, since IMHO KDE 4 is still a basket case even though it is release 10 (4.10) on my Slackware 14.0 distro! From what I am hearing on other forums, I am not alone in switching. The K people had a very stable KDE in 3.5 and they were only up to release 5 (3.5). I was sorry to see that stability go for an entire rewrite in KDE 4. Ok, so it's not quite that simple. 2 extra wrinkles; 1. Gtk or tk are pretty rarely used but are for the Xfce DE (well really a WM (=window manager (note the lower-case w)) but that is nearly a DE) and Xfce apps work well in Gnome. Not so. From my experience, most of the apps without a K prefix are written with GTK, so they can run on the most DEs. I ran GTK apps on KDE. snip / KDE is and has been, built on the QT libraries, so the QT is redundant. K* can assume QT. Most if not all of the other DEs are built on the GTK libraries. In my experience, there are many more applications built on GTK than QT. Apps built on GTK will run on KDE, however, I am not sure apps built for KDE will run on all GTK DEs. I know for a fact that KDE apps will run well on Xfce, I am doing so. In fact, I was amazed at how well they do run. The QT library was proprietary at one time (Trolltech). I don't know if the current version is. GTK is open source (GNU) licensed. I hope that helps!! I hope i got it about right too otherwise i'm going to get deluged with unwanted flaming or something! Something i like about GnuLinux is the passion and that we go all sorts of different ways but somehow manage to grow and learn from each other or make use of each others achievements and even build on them (if individuals are gifted enough) Regards from Tom :) Yours in enlightenment. Girvin Herr -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to:
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Hi :) I forgot the original question! I got carried away on the tangent Anne started (always best to blame someone else. Right?) by asking what is tk? lol Regards from Tom :) From: Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 12 April 2013, 21:53 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem On Fri, 12 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: Thanks for this summation - I wonder what the original question was? I seem to have missed a part of the exchange. as for now, it's 'clear as mud' ;-) Felmon - I'm studying the page you sent me. I hope it can be of help; I've only ever used the Linux version but I imagine they aren't too different. F. On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Hi :) Programs with tk (or more usually gtk) at the end or at the beginning are for a one type of DE for GnuLinux. Sometimes a G is used instead. The other main type of DE usually has K or Qt at the front of it's programs. Often programs have a back-end or command-line tool that does most of the heavy lifting and then different front-ends or Guis are put on for each of the 2 main types. Typically we talk about families of distros but even a single distro might have 2 or 3 versions with each one having a different type of DE. If you choose the 'wrong one' then you can choose whether to install the other DE or get a different version of the distro that does have the 'right one'. Tim at Kracked Press has somethings he likes in each of the main DEs so he installs both. It makes his system a bit more bloated but means he can use choose more apps. DE = Desktop Environment. The main 2 are Gnome and KDE. Most of the rest (Xfce, Unity, Enlightenment and probably hundreds more) tend to be able to use front-ends written for one or the other. Ok, so it's not quite that simple. 2 extra wrinkles; 1. Gtk or tk are pretty rarely used but are for the Xfce DE (well really a WM (=window manager (note the lower-case w)) but that is nearly a DE) and Xfce apps work well in Gnome. Gnome is a bit heftier (a bit more fully functionally if you know what i mean) so it's fairly normal to find a G (stands for Gnome) instead of the rarer Gtk but then that's a pain because the app might need a 3rd front-end instead of just having 2 to reach everyone. 2. Going back to seeing the K at the beginning of apps written for KDE makes sense but why the Qt? Well, until recently Qt was less streamlined and was a lot of the weight in KDE. Now it is a lot faster and lighter it seems that Gnome or distros using Gnome have pulled it in but just not quite enough of it for Tim's requirements. 3. Since Gnome often can run apps built for the 3 main DEs shouldn't that make it the DE of choice!? Oddly not. It's been forked in at least 2 or 3 different directions and in Ubuntu it's been replaced by Unity (which can also run a lot of the Gnome, Xfce or KDE apps but is extremely unpopular amongst purists) I hope that helps!! I hope i got it about right too otherwise i'm going to get deluged with unwanted flaming or something! Something i like about GnuLinux is the passion and that we go all sorts of different ways but somehow manage to grow and learn from each other or make use of each others achievements and even build on them (if individuals are gifted enough) Regards from Tom :) -- *From:* anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com *To:* Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu *Cc:* users@global.libreoffice.org *Sent:* Friday, 12 April 2013, 16:29 *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Curiously wondering what this 'new' PDFtk is - and how to acquire it ... or is this something only for Linux users ;-) The longer I'm on this amazing list, the more I'm learning about these 'glorified-typewriters' :-) On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Fri, 5 Apr 2013, David Ronis wrote: Hi Jay, Thanks for the reply. I'm using Linux (Slackware). Unfortunately, exporting to text is not an option here as the PDF's contain various drawings that can't be omitted. David what format does this 'single file' have to be in? if it can be itself a pdf then use pdftk. pdftk allows you to 'join' multiple pdfs into one. take the .doc stuff and convert to pdf then put it all together via pdftk. the syntax for pdftk is a bit weird (I find it hard to remember) but at the same time very simple. Felmon From: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:18:42 -0400 On 04/05/2013 04:18 PM, David Ronis wrote: I'm currently working on a large project that requires me to import many documents from my colleagues, some in word or PDF formats, into a single
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Hi Anne :) Really don't worry about my answer! I kinda wish i could pull it! it's becoming quite interesting but is sooo far off-topic and tangential that it's not even in orbit of anything anymore. Regards from Tom :) From: anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Cc: Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu; users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 12 April 2013, 21:46 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem No apologies necessary - it was just me being 'cute' again ;-) Your response might make sense to me after I figure out what's what on that link - still studying it. On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Yes, sorry about that! When i started writing it all seemed clear in my mind but then somehow i got a bit lost after the 1st sentence and never found my way back to solid ground. Felmon's answer said much the same i think but was much shorter and clearer. Plus the link too. Altogether much better! Apols and regards from Tom :) From: anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Cc: Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu; users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 12 April 2013, 18:23 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Thanks for this summation - as for now, it's 'clear as mud' ;-) Felmon - I'm studying the page you sent me. On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Hi :) Programs with tk (or more usually gtk) at the end or at the beginning are for a one type of DE for GnuLinux. Sometimes a G is used instead. The other main type of DE usually has K or Qt at the front of it's programs. Often programs have a back-end or command-line tool that does most of the heavy lifting and then different front-ends or Guis are put on for each of the 2 main types. Typically we talk about families of distros but even a single distro might have 2 or 3 versions with each one having a different type of DE. If you choose the 'wrong one' then you can choose whether to install the other DE or get a different version of the distro that does have the 'right one'. Tim at Kracked Press has somethings he likes in each of the main DEs so he installs both. It makes his system a bit more bloated but means he can use choose more apps. DE = Desktop Environment. The main 2 are Gnome and KDE. Most of the rest (Xfce, Unity, Enlightenment and probably hundreds more) tend to be able to use front-ends written for one or the other. Ok, so it's not quite that simple. 2 extra wrinkles; 1. Gtk or tk are pretty rarely used but are for the Xfce DE (well really a WM (=window manager (note the lower-case w)) but that is nearly a DE) and Xfce apps work well in Gnome. Gnome is a bit heftier (a bit more fully functionally if you know what i mean) so it's fairly normal to find a G (stands for Gnome) instead of the rarer Gtk but then that's a pain because the app might need a 3rd front-end instead of just having 2 to reach everyone. 2. Going back to seeing the K at the beginning of apps written for KDE makes sense but why the Qt? Well, until recently Qt was less streamlined and was a lot of the weight in KDE. Now it is a lot faster and lighter it seems that Gnome or distros using Gnome have pulled it in but just not quite enough of it for Tim's requirements. 3. Since Gnome often can run apps built for the 3 main DEs shouldn't that make it the DE of choice!? Oddly not. It's been forked in at least 2 or 3 different directions and in Ubuntu it's been replaced by Unity (which can also run a lot of the Gnome, Xfce or KDE apps but is extremely unpopular amongst purists) I hope that helps!! I hope i got it about right too otherwise i'm going to get deluged with unwanted flaming or something! Something i like about GnuLinux is the passion and that we go all sorts of different ways but somehow manage to grow and learn from each other or make use of each others achievements and even build on them (if individuals are gifted enough) Regards from Tom :) -- *From:* anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com *To:* Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu *Cc:* users@global.libreoffice.org *Sent:* Friday, 12 April 2013, 16:29 *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Curiously wondering what this 'new' PDFtk is - and how to acquire it ... or is this something only for Linux users ;-) The longer I'm on this amazing list, the more I'm learning about these 'glorified-typewriters' :-) On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Fri, 5 Apr 2013, David Ronis wrote: Hi Jay, Thanks for the reply. I'm using Linux
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so you've joined NASA ;-) they've come a long way since first landing on the moon; will you be the first to land on each of the planets ;-) in order from Mercury to Venus to Earth to Mars to Jupiter to Saturn to Uranus to Neptune to Pluto ;-) then back again ;-) Well, if we're going off on a tangent ... ... ... ;-) On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi Anne :) Really don't worry about my answer! I kinda wish i could pull it! it's becoming quite interesting but is sooo far off-topic and tangential that it's not even in orbit of anything anymore. Regards from Tom :) -- *From:* anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com *To:* Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk *Cc:* Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu; users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org *Sent:* Friday, 12 April 2013, 21:46 *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem No apologies necessary - it was just me being 'cute' again ;-) Your response might make sense to me after I figure out what's what on that link - still studying it. On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Hi :) Yes, sorry about that! When i started writing it all seemed clear in my mind but then somehow i got a bit lost after the 1st sentence and never found my way back to solid ground. Felmon's answer said much the same i think but was much shorter and clearer. Plus the link too. Altogether much better! Apols and regards from Tom :) -- *From:* anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com *To:* Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk *Cc:* Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu; users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org *Sent:* Friday, 12 April 2013, 18:23 *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Thanks for this summation - as for now, it's 'clear as mud' ;-) Felmon - I'm studying the page you sent me. On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Programs with tk (or more usually gtk) at the end or at the beginning are for a one type of DE for GnuLinux. Sometimes a G is used instead. The other main type of DE usually has K or Qt at the front of it's programs. Often programs have a back-end or command-line tool that does most of the heavy lifting and then different front-ends or Guis are put on for each of the 2 main types. Typically we talk about families of distros but even a single distro might have 2 or 3 versions with each one having a different type of DE. If you choose the 'wrong one' then you can choose whether to install the other DE or get a different version of the distro that does have the 'right one'. Tim at Kracked Press has somethings he likes in each of the main DEs so he installs both. It makes his system a bit more bloated but means he can use choose more apps. DE = Desktop Environment. The main 2 are Gnome and KDE. Most of the rest (Xfce, Unity, Enlightenment and probably hundreds more) tend to be able to use front-ends written for one or the other. Ok, so it's not quite that simple. 2 extra wrinkles; 1. Gtk or tk are pretty rarely used but are for the Xfce DE (well really a WM (=window manager (note the lower-case w)) but that is nearly a DE) and Xfce apps work well in Gnome. Gnome is a bit heftier (a bit more fully functionally if you know what i mean) so it's fairly normal to find a G (stands for Gnome) instead of the rarer Gtk but then that's a pain because the app might need a 3rd front-end instead of just having 2 to reach everyone. 2. Going back to seeing the K at the beginning of apps written for KDE makes sense but why the Qt? Well, until recently Qt was less streamlined and was a lot of the weight in KDE. Now it is a lot faster and lighter it seems that Gnome or distros using Gnome have pulled it in but just not quite enough of it for Tim's requirements. 3. Since Gnome often can run apps built for the 3 main DEs shouldn't that make it the DE of choice!? Oddly not. It's been forked in at least 2 or 3 different directions and in Ubuntu it's been replaced by Unity (which can also run a lot of the Gnome, Xfce or KDE apps but is extremely unpopular amongst purists) I hope that helps!! I hope i got it about right too otherwise i'm going to get deluged with unwanted flaming or something! Something i like about GnuLinux is the passion and that we go all sorts of different ways but somehow manage to grow and learn from each other or make use of each others achievements and even build on them (if individuals are gifted enough) Regards from Tom :) -- *From:* anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com *To:* Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu *Cc:* users
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Hi :) This was the post that sent me veering off-course. Gtk or Tk apps often seem to have been ported to Windows but that might just be because i notice them more Regards from Tom :) From: Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 12 April 2013, 17:15 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem On Fri, 12 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: Curiously wondering what this 'new' PDFtk is - and how to acquire it ... or is this something only for Linux users ;-) you can find information about versions for Windows at http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/; looks like the direct link to the Windows stuff is: http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/pdftk_server-1.45-windows-setup.msi I find pdftk a god-send. F. The longer I'm on this amazing list, the more I'm learning about these 'glorified-typewriters' :-) On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Fri, 5 Apr 2013, David Ronis wrote: Hi Jay, Thanks for the reply. I'm using Linux (Slackware). Unfortunately, exporting to text is not an option here as the PDF's contain various drawings that can't be omitted. David what format does this 'single file' have to be in? if it can be itself a pdf then use pdftk. pdftk allows you to 'join' multiple pdfs into one. take the .doc stuff and convert to pdf then put it all together via pdftk. the syntax for pdftk is a bit weird (I find it hard to remember) but at the same time very simple. Felmon From: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:18:42 -0400 On 04/05/2013 04:18 PM, David Ronis wrote: I'm currently working on a large project that requires me to import many documents from my colleagues, some in word or PDF formats, into a single file. Libreoffice doesn't work if I try Insert-File... on a PDF file (I get an error popup saying Error rereading the file). I can open the PDF file (in draw) and cut and paste each PDF page into the document, but that is painful. Is there a way to make File-Insert work, perhaps via a macro? If not, consider this a feature request. David What OS are you using? In some pdf readers you can export the entire file as a plain text file and this file can be opened in Writer or imported into Calc. I do not know if this would less or more painful. You would have the entire file at once but would need to format the text. -- Felmon Davis -- Felmon Davis Ralph's Observation: It is a mistake to let any mechanical object realise that you are in a hurry. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
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Hi :) Actually this Steve is just describing a 2 or 3 click answer. It's technically easier than the importing into Draw method but sounds more complicated because of unfamiliarity. The use of names of things makes it sound complicated too but when you get through that it's amazingly simple. If he were with you showing you or in screenshot or a YouTube video you would see what he means more clearly Regards from Tom :) From: anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com To: Steve Edmonds steve.edmo...@ptglobal.com Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 12 April 2013, 16:22 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem This seems to be a much longer way of editing ;-) my way - open in LO's Draw program then edit page by page or within each page; and/or save from the Draw program to whichever extension you so desire. Well, I've always followed the KISs method - especially when it comes to this 'glorified typewriter' ;-) On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Steve Edmonds steve.edmo...@ptglobal.comwrote: Hi. I just tried an interesting thing. Uploaded a PDF with images to google drive. Right clicked the PDF and open with google docs. Then the PDF was converted to a google doc and I could download the PDF as an odt and edit it. Steve On 2013-04-06 10:50, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Ouch! Single images are ok as you can right-click and save them or even just drag them out of the Pdf sometimes but if it's tons of logos or overlapping images then it can be a total Pita. My cheating way was to use Gimp to import (luckily only a page or 2 at a time and only a couple in the entire thing), crop and resize, sometimes change RGB into indexed and then alpha channel the white-space and plonked on the page. After a few of those people stopped sending me stuff as Pdfs! :)) Regards from Tom :) From: David Ronis ro...@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca To: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 5 April 2013, 22:28 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Hi Jay, Thanks for the reply. I'm using Linux (Slackware). Unfortunately, exporting to text is not an option here as the PDF's contain various drawings that can't be omitted. David From: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:18:42 -0400 On 04/05/2013 04:18 PM, David Ronis wrote: I'm currently working on a large project that requires me to import many documents from my colleagues, some in word or PDF formats, into a single file. Libreoffice doesn't work if I try Insert-File... on a PDF file (I get an error popup saying Error rereading the file). I can open the PDF file (in draw) and cut and paste each PDF page into the document, but that is painful. Is there a way to make File-Insert work, perhaps via a macro? If not, consider this a feature request. David What OS are you using? In some pdf readers you can export the entire file as a plain text file and this file can be opened in Writer or imported into Calc. I do not know if this would less or more painful. You would have the entire file at once but would need to format the text. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
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This seems to be a much longer way of editing ;-) my way - open in LO's Draw program then edit page by page or within each page; and/or save from the Draw program to whichever extension you so desire. Well, I've always followed the KISs method - especially when it comes to this 'glorified typewriter' ;-) On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Steve Edmonds steve.edmo...@ptglobal.comwrote: Hi. I just tried an interesting thing. Uploaded a PDF with images to google drive. Right clicked the PDF and open with google docs. Then the PDF was converted to a google doc and I could download the PDF as an odt and edit it. Steve On 2013-04-06 10:50, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Ouch! Single images are ok as you can right-click and save them or even just drag them out of the Pdf sometimes but if it's tons of logos or overlapping images then it can be a total Pita. My cheating way was to use Gimp to import (luckily only a page or 2 at a time and only a couple in the entire thing), crop and resize, sometimes change RGB into indexed and then alpha channel the white-space and plonked on the page. After a few of those people stopped sending me stuff as Pdfs! :)) Regards from Tom :) From: David Ronis ro...@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca To: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 5 April 2013, 22:28 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Hi Jay, Thanks for the reply. I'm using Linux (Slackware). Unfortunately, exporting to text is not an option here as the PDF's contain various drawings that can't be omitted. David From: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:18:42 -0400 On 04/05/2013 04:18 PM, David Ronis wrote: I'm currently working on a large project that requires me to import many documents from my colleagues, some in word or PDF formats, into a single file. Libreoffice doesn't work if I try Insert-File... on a PDF file (I get an error popup saying Error rereading the file). I can open the PDF file (in draw) and cut and paste each PDF page into the document, but that is painful. Is there a way to make File-Insert work, perhaps via a macro? If not, consider this a feature request. David What OS are you using? In some pdf readers you can export the entire file as a plain text file and this file can be opened in Writer or imported into Calc. I do not know if this would less or more painful. You would have the entire file at once but would need to format the text. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
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Curiously wondering what this 'new' PDFtk is - and how to acquire it ... or is this something only for Linux users ;-) The longer I'm on this amazing list, the more I'm learning about these 'glorified-typewriters' :-) On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Fri, 5 Apr 2013, David Ronis wrote: Hi Jay, Thanks for the reply. I'm using Linux (Slackware). Unfortunately, exporting to text is not an option here as the PDF's contain various drawings that can't be omitted. David what format does this 'single file' have to be in? if it can be itself a pdf then use pdftk. pdftk allows you to 'join' multiple pdfs into one. take the .doc stuff and convert to pdf then put it all together via pdftk. the syntax for pdftk is a bit weird (I find it hard to remember) but at the same time very simple. Felmon From: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:18:42 -0400 On 04/05/2013 04:18 PM, David Ronis wrote: I'm currently working on a large project that requires me to import many documents from my colleagues, some in word or PDF formats, into a single file. Libreoffice doesn't work if I try Insert-File... on a PDF file (I get an error popup saying Error rereading the file). I can open the PDF file (in draw) and cut and paste each PDF page into the document, but that is painful. Is there a way to make File-Insert work, perhaps via a macro? If not, consider this a feature request. David What OS are you using? In some pdf readers you can export the entire file as a plain text file and this file can be opened in Writer or imported into Calc. I do not know if this would less or more painful. You would have the entire file at once but would need to format the text. -- Felmon Davis -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
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Gimmicks' library ??? ;-) what's in this? and where is it located? and ... ... ... ??? Just curiously wondering :) On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Fernand Vanrie s...@pmgroup.be wrote: Op 05/04/2013 22:18, David Ronis schreef: I'm currently working on a large project that requires me to import many documents from my colleagues, some in word or PDF formats, into a single file. Libreoffice doesn't work if I try Insert-File... on a PDF file (I get an error popup saying Error rereading the file). I can open the PDF file (in draw) and cut and paste each PDF page into the document, but that is painful. Is there a way to make File-Insert work, perhaps via a macro? it can surly been automated, import the PDF in draw and then export the elements to a writerdoc, you will find a lot of code in the Gimmicks library (gettextsgetdrawstrings) hope it helps Fernand If not, consider this a feature request. David -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
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interesting ;-( ;-) Now I'm confused ... well, that's not anything new ... why should this method work for me and not not for others ;-) Well, the more I learn of these 'glorified typewriters', the less I seem to know ;-) On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 11:09 PM, David Ronis ro...@ronispc.chem.mcgill.cawrote: When I open the PDF file and try to export it, all I see are graphics formats (e.g., .bpm, .jpeg, .wfm etc.). I've tried several and they are importable into my document (as a picture), but it seems that only one page was exported, which is more complicated than copying and pasting from each page of the draw object. In the mean time, I've discovered a free conversion site, www.zamzar.com, and they were able to convert the PDF files to odt (with the images as bitmaps. Now here's another strange thing: I can use LO to open the converted file and the document looks as I expect; however, when I insert the file (insert-file) into my larger document, only the text is picked up, leaving blank spaces where the images should go. This sounds like a bug, but perhaps there is some setting that controls this. One other thing: when I open the single/converted pdf-odt document, the navigator shows draw objects and graphics objects as 0. On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 08:36 +0200, Fernand Vanrie wrote: Op 05/04/2013 22:18, David Ronis schreef: I'm currently working on a large project that requires me to import many documents from my colleagues, some in word or PDF formats, into a single file. Libreoffice doesn't work if I try Insert-File... on a PDF file (I get an error popup saying Error rereading the file). I can open the PDF file (in draw) and cut and paste each PDF page into the document, but that is painful. Is there a way to make File-Insert work, perhaps via a macro? it can surly been automated, import the PDF in draw and then export the elements to a writerdoc, you will find a lot of code in the Gimmicks library (gettextsgetdrawstrings) hope it helps Fernand If not, consider this a feature request. David -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
On Fri, 12 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: Curiously wondering what this 'new' PDFtk is - and how to acquire it ... or is this something only for Linux users ;-) you can find information about versions for Windows at http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/; looks like the direct link to the Windows stuff is: http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/pdftk_server-1.45-windows-setup.msi I find pdftk a god-send. F. The longer I'm on this amazing list, the more I'm learning about these 'glorified-typewriters' :-) On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Fri, 5 Apr 2013, David Ronis wrote: Hi Jay, Thanks for the reply. I'm using Linux (Slackware). Unfortunately, exporting to text is not an option here as the PDF's contain various drawings that can't be omitted. David what format does this 'single file' have to be in? if it can be itself a pdf then use pdftk. pdftk allows you to 'join' multiple pdfs into one. take the .doc stuff and convert to pdf then put it all together via pdftk. the syntax for pdftk is a bit weird (I find it hard to remember) but at the same time very simple. Felmon From: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:18:42 -0400 On 04/05/2013 04:18 PM, David Ronis wrote: I'm currently working on a large project that requires me to import many documents from my colleagues, some in word or PDF formats, into a single file. Libreoffice doesn't work if I try Insert-File... on a PDF file (I get an error popup saying Error rereading the file). I can open the PDF file (in draw) and cut and paste each PDF page into the document, but that is painful. Is there a way to make File-Insert work, perhaps via a macro? If not, consider this a feature request. David What OS are you using? In some pdf readers you can export the entire file as a plain text file and this file can be opened in Writer or imported into Calc. I do not know if this would less or more painful. You would have the entire file at once but would need to format the text. -- Felmon Davis -- Felmon Davis Ralph's Observation: It is a mistake to let any mechanical object realise that you are in a hurry. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
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Thank you. On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Fri, 12 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: Curiously wondering what this 'new' PDFtk is - and how to acquire it ... or is this something only for Linux users ;-) you can find information about versions for Windows at http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/**pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/; looks like the direct link to the Windows stuff is: http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/**pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/pdftk_** server-1.45-windows-setup.msihttp://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/pdftk_server-1.45-windows-setup.msi I find pdftk a god-send. F. The longer I'm on this amazing list, the more I'm learning about these 'glorified-typewriters' :-) On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Fri, 5 Apr 2013, David Ronis wrote: Hi Jay, Thanks for the reply. I'm using Linux (Slackware). Unfortunately, exporting to text is not an option here as the PDF's contain various drawings that can't be omitted. David what format does this 'single file' have to be in? if it can be itself a pdf then use pdftk. pdftk allows you to 'join' multiple pdfs into one. take the .doc stuff and convert to pdf then put it all together via pdftk. the syntax for pdftk is a bit weird (I find it hard to remember) but at the same time very simple. Felmon From: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:18:42 -0400 On 04/05/2013 04:18 PM, David Ronis wrote: I'm currently working on a large project that requires me to import many documents from my colleagues, some in word or PDF formats, into a single file. Libreoffice doesn't work if I try Insert-File... on a PDF file (I get an error popup saying Error rereading the file). I can open the PDF file (in draw) and cut and paste each PDF page into the document, but that is painful. Is there a way to make File-Insert work, perhaps via a macro? If not, consider this a feature request. David What OS are you using? In some pdf readers you can export the entire file as a plain text file and this file can be opened in Writer or imported into Calc. I do not know if this would less or more painful. You would have the entire file at once but would need to format the text. -- Felmon Davis -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
Hi :) Programs with tk (or more usually gtk) at the end or at the beginning are for a one type of DE for GnuLinux. Sometimes a G is used instead. The other main type of DE usually has K or Qt at the front of it's programs. Often programs have a back-end or command-line tool that does most of the heavy lifting and then different front-ends or Guis are put on for each of the 2 main types. Typically we talk about families of distros but even a single distro might have 2 or 3 versions with each one having a different type of DE. If you choose the 'wrong one' then you can choose whether to install the other DE or get a different version of the distro that does have the 'right one'. Tim at Kracked Press has somethings he likes in each of the main DEs so he installs both. It makes his system a bit more bloated but means he can use choose more apps. DE = Desktop Environment. The main 2 are Gnome and KDE. Most of the rest (Xfce, Unity, Enlightenment and probably hundreds more) tend to be able to use front-ends written for one or the other. Ok, so it's not quite that simple. 2 extra wrinkles; 1. Gtk or tk are pretty rarely used but are for the Xfce DE (well really a WM (=window manager (note the lower-case w)) but that is nearly a DE) and Xfce apps work well in Gnome. Gnome is a bit heftier (a bit more fully functionally if you know what i mean) so it's fairly normal to find a G (stands for Gnome) instead of the rarer Gtk but then that's a pain because the app might need a 3rd front-end instead of just having 2 to reach everyone. 2. Going back to seeing the K at the beginning of apps written for KDE makes sense but why the Qt? Well, until recently Qt was less streamlined and was a lot of the weight in KDE. Now it is a lot faster and lighter it seems that Gnome or distros using Gnome have pulled it in but just not quite enough of it for Tim's requirements. 3. Since Gnome often can run apps built for the 3 main DEs shouldn't that make it the DE of choice!? Oddly not. It's been forked in at least 2 or 3 different directions and in Ubuntu it's been replaced by Unity (which can also run a lot of the Gnome, Xfce or KDE apps but is extremely unpopular amongst purists) I hope that helps!! I hope i got it about right too otherwise i'm going to get deluged with unwanted flaming or something! Something i like about GnuLinux is the passion and that we go all sorts of different ways but somehow manage to grow and learn from each other or make use of each others achievements and even build on them (if individuals are gifted enough) Regards from Tom :) From: anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com To: Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 12 April 2013, 16:29 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Curiously wondering what this 'new' PDFtk is - and how to acquire it ... or is this something only for Linux users ;-) The longer I'm on this amazing list, the more I'm learning about these 'glorified-typewriters' :-) On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Fri, 5 Apr 2013, David Ronis wrote: Hi Jay, Thanks for the reply. I'm using Linux (Slackware). Unfortunately, exporting to text is not an option here as the PDF's contain various drawings that can't be omitted. David what format does this 'single file' have to be in? if it can be itself a pdf then use pdftk. pdftk allows you to 'join' multiple pdfs into one. take the .doc stuff and convert to pdf then put it all together via pdftk. the syntax for pdftk is a bit weird (I find it hard to remember) but at the same time very simple. Felmon From: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:18:42 -0400 On 04/05/2013 04:18 PM, David Ronis wrote: I'm currently working on a large project that requires me to import many documents from my colleagues, some in word or PDF formats, into a single file. Libreoffice doesn't work if I try Insert-File... on a PDF file (I get an error popup saying Error rereading the file). I can open the PDF file (in draw) and cut and paste each PDF page into the document, but that is painful. Is there a way to make File-Insert work, perhaps via a macro? If not, consider this a feature request. David What OS are you using? In some pdf readers you can export the entire file as a plain text file and this file can be opened in Writer or imported into Calc. I do not know if this would less or more painful. You would have the entire file at once but would need to format the text. -- Felmon Davis -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
Thanks for this summation - as for now, it's 'clear as mud' ;-) Felmon - I'm studying the page you sent me. On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Hi :) Programs with tk (or more usually gtk) at the end or at the beginning are for a one type of DE for GnuLinux. Sometimes a G is used instead. The other main type of DE usually has K or Qt at the front of it's programs. Often programs have a back-end or command-line tool that does most of the heavy lifting and then different front-ends or Guis are put on for each of the 2 main types. Typically we talk about families of distros but even a single distro might have 2 or 3 versions with each one having a different type of DE. If you choose the 'wrong one' then you can choose whether to install the other DE or get a different version of the distro that does have the 'right one'. Tim at Kracked Press has somethings he likes in each of the main DEs so he installs both. It makes his system a bit more bloated but means he can use choose more apps. DE = Desktop Environment. The main 2 are Gnome and KDE. Most of the rest (Xfce, Unity, Enlightenment and probably hundreds more) tend to be able to use front-ends written for one or the other. Ok, so it's not quite that simple. 2 extra wrinkles; 1. Gtk or tk are pretty rarely used but are for the Xfce DE (well really a WM (=window manager (note the lower-case w)) but that is nearly a DE) and Xfce apps work well in Gnome. Gnome is a bit heftier (a bit more fully functionally if you know what i mean) so it's fairly normal to find a G (stands for Gnome) instead of the rarer Gtk but then that's a pain because the app might need a 3rd front-end instead of just having 2 to reach everyone. 2. Going back to seeing the K at the beginning of apps written for KDE makes sense but why the Qt? Well, until recently Qt was less streamlined and was a lot of the weight in KDE. Now it is a lot faster and lighter it seems that Gnome or distros using Gnome have pulled it in but just not quite enough of it for Tim's requirements. 3. Since Gnome often can run apps built for the 3 main DEs shouldn't that make it the DE of choice!? Oddly not. It's been forked in at least 2 or 3 different directions and in Ubuntu it's been replaced by Unity (which can also run a lot of the Gnome, Xfce or KDE apps but is extremely unpopular amongst purists) I hope that helps!! I hope i got it about right too otherwise i'm going to get deluged with unwanted flaming or something! Something i like about GnuLinux is the passion and that we go all sorts of different ways but somehow manage to grow and learn from each other or make use of each others achievements and even build on them (if individuals are gifted enough) Regards from Tom :) -- *From:* anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com *To:* Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu *Cc:* users@global.libreoffice.org *Sent:* Friday, 12 April 2013, 16:29 *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Curiously wondering what this 'new' PDFtk is - and how to acquire it ... or is this something only for Linux users ;-) The longer I'm on this amazing list, the more I'm learning about these 'glorified-typewriters' :-) On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Fri, 5 Apr 2013, David Ronis wrote: Hi Jay, Thanks for the reply. I'm using Linux (Slackware). Unfortunately, exporting to text is not an option here as the PDF's contain various drawings that can't be omitted. David what format does this 'single file' have to be in? if it can be itself a pdf then use pdftk. pdftk allows you to 'join' multiple pdfs into one. take the .doc stuff and convert to pdf then put it all together via pdftk. the syntax for pdftk is a bit weird (I find it hard to remember) but at the same time very simple. Felmon From: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:18:42 -0400 On 04/05/2013 04:18 PM, David Ronis wrote: I'm currently working on a large project that requires me to import many documents from my colleagues, some in word or PDF formats, into a single file. Libreoffice doesn't work if I try Insert-File... on a PDF file (I get an error popup saying Error rereading the file). I can open the PDF file (in draw) and cut and paste each PDF page into the document, but that is painful. Is there a way to make File-Insert work, perhaps via a macro? If not, consider this a feature request. David What OS are you using? In some pdf readers you can export the entire file as a plain text file and this file can be opened in Writer or imported into Calc. I do not know if this would less or more painful. You would
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
No apologies necessary - it was just me being 'cute' again ;-) Your response might make sense to me after I figure out what's what on that link - still studying it. On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Yes, sorry about that! When i started writing it all seemed clear in my mind but then somehow i got a bit lost after the 1st sentence and never found my way back to solid ground. Felmon's answer said much the same i think but was much shorter and clearer. Plus the link too. Altogether much better! Apols and regards from Tom :) -- *From:* anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com *To:* Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk *Cc:* Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu; users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org *Sent:* Friday, 12 April 2013, 18:23 *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Thanks for this summation - as for now, it's 'clear as mud' ;-) Felmon - I'm studying the page you sent me. On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Programs with tk (or more usually gtk) at the end or at the beginning are for a one type of DE for GnuLinux. Sometimes a G is used instead. The other main type of DE usually has K or Qt at the front of it's programs. Often programs have a back-end or command-line tool that does most of the heavy lifting and then different front-ends or Guis are put on for each of the 2 main types. Typically we talk about families of distros but even a single distro might have 2 or 3 versions with each one having a different type of DE. If you choose the 'wrong one' then you can choose whether to install the other DE or get a different version of the distro that does have the 'right one'. Tim at Kracked Press has somethings he likes in each of the main DEs so he installs both. It makes his system a bit more bloated but means he can use choose more apps. DE = Desktop Environment. The main 2 are Gnome and KDE. Most of the rest (Xfce, Unity, Enlightenment and probably hundreds more) tend to be able to use front-ends written for one or the other. Ok, so it's not quite that simple. 2 extra wrinkles; 1. Gtk or tk are pretty rarely used but are for the Xfce DE (well really a WM (=window manager (note the lower-case w)) but that is nearly a DE) and Xfce apps work well in Gnome. Gnome is a bit heftier (a bit more fully functionally if you know what i mean) so it's fairly normal to find a G (stands for Gnome) instead of the rarer Gtk but then that's a pain because the app might need a 3rd front-end instead of just having 2 to reach everyone. 2. Going back to seeing the K at the beginning of apps written for KDE makes sense but why the Qt? Well, until recently Qt was less streamlined and was a lot of the weight in KDE. Now it is a lot faster and lighter it seems that Gnome or distros using Gnome have pulled it in but just not quite enough of it for Tim's requirements. 3. Since Gnome often can run apps built for the 3 main DEs shouldn't that make it the DE of choice!? Oddly not. It's been forked in at least 2 or 3 different directions and in Ubuntu it's been replaced by Unity (which can also run a lot of the Gnome, Xfce or KDE apps but is extremely unpopular amongst purists) I hope that helps!! I hope i got it about right too otherwise i'm going to get deluged with unwanted flaming or something! Something i like about GnuLinux is the passion and that we go all sorts of different ways but somehow manage to grow and learn from each other or make use of each others achievements and even build on them (if individuals are gifted enough) Regards from Tom :) -- *From:* anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com *To:* Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu *Cc:* users@global.libreoffice.org *Sent:* Friday, 12 April 2013, 16:29 *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Curiously wondering what this 'new' PDFtk is - and how to acquire it ... or is this something only for Linux users ;-) The longer I'm on this amazing list, the more I'm learning about these 'glorified-typewriters' :-) On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Fri, 5 Apr 2013, David Ronis wrote: Hi Jay, Thanks for the reply. I'm using Linux (Slackware). Unfortunately, exporting to text is not an option here as the PDF's contain various drawings that can't be omitted. David what format does this 'single file' have to be in? if it can be itself a pdf then use pdftk. pdftk allows you to 'join' multiple pdfs into one. take the .doc stuff and convert to pdf then put it all together via pdftk. the syntax for pdftk is a bit weird (I find
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
On Fri, 12 Apr 2013, anne-ology wrote: Thanks for this summation - I wonder what the original question was? I seem to have missed a part of the exchange. as for now, it's 'clear as mud' ;-) Felmon - I'm studying the page you sent me. I hope it can be of help; I've only ever used the Linux version but I imagine they aren't too different. F. On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Hi :) Programs with tk (or more usually gtk) at the end or at the beginning are for a one type of DE for GnuLinux. Sometimes a G is used instead. The other main type of DE usually has K or Qt at the front of it's programs. Often programs have a back-end or command-line tool that does most of the heavy lifting and then different front-ends or Guis are put on for each of the 2 main types. Typically we talk about families of distros but even a single distro might have 2 or 3 versions with each one having a different type of DE. If you choose the 'wrong one' then you can choose whether to install the other DE or get a different version of the distro that does have the 'right one'. Tim at Kracked Press has somethings he likes in each of the main DEs so he installs both. It makes his system a bit more bloated but means he can use choose more apps. DE = Desktop Environment. The main 2 are Gnome and KDE. Most of the rest (Xfce, Unity, Enlightenment and probably hundreds more) tend to be able to use front-ends written for one or the other. Ok, so it's not quite that simple. 2 extra wrinkles; 1. Gtk or tk are pretty rarely used but are for the Xfce DE (well really a WM (=window manager (note the lower-case w)) but that is nearly a DE) and Xfce apps work well in Gnome. Gnome is a bit heftier (a bit more fully functionally if you know what i mean) so it's fairly normal to find a G (stands for Gnome) instead of the rarer Gtk but then that's a pain because the app might need a 3rd front-end instead of just having 2 to reach everyone. 2. Going back to seeing the K at the beginning of apps written for KDE makes sense but why the Qt? Well, until recently Qt was less streamlined and was a lot of the weight in KDE. Now it is a lot faster and lighter it seems that Gnome or distros using Gnome have pulled it in but just not quite enough of it for Tim's requirements. 3. Since Gnome often can run apps built for the 3 main DEs shouldn't that make it the DE of choice!? Oddly not. It's been forked in at least 2 or 3 different directions and in Ubuntu it's been replaced by Unity (which can also run a lot of the Gnome, Xfce or KDE apps but is extremely unpopular amongst purists) I hope that helps!! I hope i got it about right too otherwise i'm going to get deluged with unwanted flaming or something! Something i like about GnuLinux is the passion and that we go all sorts of different ways but somehow manage to grow and learn from each other or make use of each others achievements and even build on them (if individuals are gifted enough) Regards from Tom :) -- *From:* anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com *To:* Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu *Cc:* users@global.libreoffice.org *Sent:* Friday, 12 April 2013, 16:29 *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Curiously wondering what this 'new' PDFtk is - and how to acquire it ... or is this something only for Linux users ;-) The longer I'm on this amazing list, the more I'm learning about these 'glorified-typewriters' :-) On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: On Fri, 5 Apr 2013, David Ronis wrote: Hi Jay, Thanks for the reply. I'm using Linux (Slackware). Unfortunately, exporting to text is not an option here as the PDF's contain various drawings that can't be omitted. David what format does this 'single file' have to be in? if it can be itself a pdf then use pdftk. pdftk allows you to 'join' multiple pdfs into one. take the .doc stuff and convert to pdf then put it all together via pdftk. the syntax for pdftk is a bit weird (I find it hard to remember) but at the same time very simple. Felmon From: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:18:42 -0400 On 04/05/2013 04:18 PM, David Ronis wrote: I'm currently working on a large project that requires me to import many documents from my colleagues, some in word or PDF formats, into a single file. Libreoffice doesn't work if I try Insert-File... on a PDF file (I get an error popup saying Error rereading the file). I can open the PDF file (in draw) and cut and paste each PDF page into the document, but that is painful. Is there a way to make File-Insert work, perhaps via a macro? If not, consider this a feature request. David What OS are you using? In some pdf readers you can export the entire file as a plain text file
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
Tom, My 2-cents. On 04/12/2013 10:15 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Programs with tk (or more usually gtk) at the end or at the beginning are for a one type of DE for GnuLinux. Sometimes a G is used instead. The other main type of DE usually has K or Qt at the front of it's programs. tk stands for Tool Kit, so truncating GTK (Gnome Tool Kit) is not entirely proper. Often programs have a back-end or command-line tool that does most of the heavy lifting and then different front-ends or Guis are put on for each of the 2 main types. Typically we talk about families of distros but even a single distro might have 2 or 3 versions with each one having a different type of DE. If you choose the 'wrong one' then you can choose whether to install the other DE or get a different version of the distro that does have the 'right one'. Tim at Kracked Press has somethings he likes in each of the main DEs so he installs both. It makes his system a bit more bloated but means he can use choose more apps. DE = Desktop Environment. The main 2 are Gnome and KDE. Most of the rest (Xfce, Unity, Enlightenment and probably hundreds more) tend to be able to use front-ends written for one or the other. I have switched to Xfce, since IMHO KDE 4 is still a basket case even though it is release 10 (4.10) on my Slackware 14.0 distro! From what I am hearing on other forums, I am not alone in switching. The K people had a very stable KDE in 3.5 and they were only up to release 5 (3.5). I was sorry to see that stability go for an entire rewrite in KDE 4. Ok, so it's not quite that simple. 2 extra wrinkles; 1. Gtk or tk are pretty rarely used but are for the Xfce DE (well really a WM (=window manager (note the lower-case w)) but that is nearly a DE) and Xfce apps work well in Gnome. Not so. From my experience, most of the apps without a K prefix are written with GTK, so they can run on the most DEs. I ran GTK apps on KDE. Gnome is a bit heftier (a bit more fully functionally if you know what i mean) so it's fairly normal to find a G (stands for Gnome) instead of the rarer Gtk but then that's a pain because the app might need a 3rd front-end instead of just having 2 to reach everyone. 2. Going back to seeing the K at the beginning of apps written for KDE makes sense but why the Qt? Well, until recently Qt was less streamlined and was a lot of the weight in KDE. Now it is a lot faster and lighter it seems that Gnome or distros using Gnome have pulled it in but just not quite enough of it for Tim's requirements. 3. Since Gnome often can run apps built for the 3 main DEs shouldn't that make it the DE of choice!? Oddly not. It's been forked in at least 2 or 3 different directions and in Ubuntu it's been replaced by Unity (which can also run a lot of the Gnome, Xfce or KDE apps but is extremely unpopular amongst purists) KDE is and has been, built on the QT libraries, so the QT is redundant. K* can assume QT. Most if not all of the other DEs are built on the GTK libraries. In my experience, there are many more applications built on GTK than QT. Apps built on GTK will run on KDE, however, I am not sure apps built for KDE will run on all GTK DEs. I know for a fact that KDE apps will run well on Xfce, I am doing so. In fact, I was amazed at how well they do run. The QT library was proprietary at one time (Trolltech). I don't know if the current version is. GTK is open source (GNU) licensed. I hope that helps!! I hope i got it about right too otherwise i'm going to get deluged with unwanted flaming or something! Something i like about GnuLinux is the passion and that we go all sorts of different ways but somehow manage to grow and learn from each other or make use of each others achievements and even build on them (if individuals are gifted enough) Regards from Tom :) Yours in enlightenment. Girvin Herr -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
Hi :) Also 2 things; 1. It might be worth uploading your Pdfs to Google-docs and the opening them with Google-docs to save as Odt. Someone here recently said that seemed to solve all their problems with Pdfs so it would be interesting to see if yours work too. 2. if you right-click on images in a Pdf it generally allows you to Save Graphic. Of course this way you have to place them again. 3. If you just copypaste text straight out of the Pdf and into a document as Unformatted text and then apply styles it might end up with a much more consistent document but again you would have to follow 2 above in order to get all the pictures/photos/logos/images back in. Good luck and regards from Tom :) From: Girvin R. Herr girvin.h...@sbcglobal.net To: david.ro...@mcgill.ca Cc: Fernand Vanrie s...@pmgroup.be; users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sunday, 7 April 2013, 21:48 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem David, LibreOffice allows graphics to have placeholders in case rendering such takes a lot of time when scrolling. Maybe yours are turned off. Try Tools - Options - LibreOffice Writer - View Under Display, there should be a checkbox titled Graphics and objects. Make sure this is checked. Hope this helps. Girvin Herr David Ronis wrote: When I open the PDF file and try to export it, all I see are graphics formats (e.g., .bpm, .jpeg, .wfm etc.). I've tried several and they are importable into my document (as a picture), but it seems that only one page was exported, which is more complicated than copying and pasting from each page of the draw object. In the mean time, I've discovered a free conversion site, www.zamzar.com, and they were able to convert the PDF files to odt (with the images as bitmaps. Now here's another strange thing: I can use LO to open the converted file and the document looks as I expect; however, when I insert the file (insert-file) into my larger document, only the text is picked up, leaving blank spaces where the images should go. This sounds like a bug, but perhaps there is some setting that controls this. One other thing: when I open the single/converted pdf-odt document, the navigator shows draw objects and graphics objects as 0. On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 08:36 +0200, Fernand Vanrie wrote: Op 05/04/2013 22:18, David Ronis schreef: I'm currently working on a large project that requires me to import many documents from my colleagues, some in word or PDF formats, into a single file. Libreoffice doesn't work if I try Insert-File... on a PDF file (I get an error popup saying Error rereading the file). I can open the PDF file (in draw) and cut and paste each PDF page into the document, but that is painful. Is there a way to make File-Insert work, perhaps via a macro? it can surly been automated, import the PDF in draw and then export the elements to a writerdoc, you will find a lot of code in the Gimmicks library (gettextsgetdrawstrings) hope it helps Fernand If not, consider this a feature request. David -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
David, LibreOffice allows graphics to have placeholders in case rendering such takes a lot of time when scrolling. Maybe yours are turned off. Try Tools - Options - LibreOffice Writer - View Under Display, there should be a checkbox titled Graphics and objects. Make sure this is checked. Hope this helps. Girvin Herr David Ronis wrote: When I open the PDF file and try to export it, all I see are graphics formats (e.g., .bpm, .jpeg, .wfm etc.). I've tried several and they are importable into my document (as a picture), but it seems that only one page was exported, which is more complicated than copying and pasting from each page of the draw object. In the mean time, I've discovered a free conversion site, www.zamzar.com, and they were able to convert the PDF files to odt (with the images as bitmaps. Now here's another strange thing: I can use LO to open the converted file and the document looks as I expect; however, when I insert the file (insert-file) into my larger document, only the text is picked up, leaving blank spaces where the images should go. This sounds like a bug, but perhaps there is some setting that controls this. One other thing: when I open the single/converted pdf-odt document, the navigator shows draw objects and graphics objects as 0. On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 08:36 +0200, Fernand Vanrie wrote: Op 05/04/2013 22:18, David Ronis schreef: I'm currently working on a large project that requires me to import many documents from my colleagues, some in word or PDF formats, into a single file. Libreoffice doesn't work if I try Insert-File... on a PDF file (I get an error popup saying Error rereading the file). I can open the PDF file (in draw) and cut and paste each PDF page into the document, but that is painful. Is there a way to make File-Insert work, perhaps via a macro? it can surly been automated, import the PDF in draw and then export the elements to a writerdoc, you will find a lot of code in the Gimmicks library (gettextsgetdrawstrings) hope it helps Fernand If not, consider this a feature request. David -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
Op 05/04/2013 22:18, David Ronis schreef: I'm currently working on a large project that requires me to import many documents from my colleagues, some in word or PDF formats, into a single file. Libreoffice doesn't work if I try Insert-File... on a PDF file (I get an error popup saying Error rereading the file). I can open the PDF file (in draw) and cut and paste each PDF page into the document, but that is painful. Is there a way to make File-Insert work, perhaps via a macro? it can surly been automated, import the PDF in draw and then export the elements to a writerdoc, you will find a lot of code in the Gimmicks library (gettextsgetdrawstrings) hope it helps Fernand If not, consider this a feature request. David -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
On 2013-04-07 09:25, Doug wrote: On 04/06/2013 01:22 AM, Steve Edmonds wrote: Hi. I just tried an interesting thing. Uploaded a PDF with images to google drive. Right clicked the PDF and open with google docs. Then the PDF was converted to a google doc and I could download the PDF as an odt and edit it. Steve Information please: what is a google drive? --doug Hi. Google keeps changing the name of things. When you get a gmail account you have a thing also called google docs which might now be called google drive. When you sign into your gmail account it is up the top google navigation bar. Steve -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
But I still have 5GB for free, and that doesn't include documents converted to google docs which are free and not counted in your quota. Steve On 2013-04-07 10:06, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It's a Cloud storage space provided by Google, Generally with these Cloud spaces they let you have just enough for free that you get hooked into using it which tempts you into paying for a more useful size. Regards from Tom :) From: Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Saturday, 6 April 2013, 22:25 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem On 04/06/2013 01:22 AM, Steve Edmonds wrote: Hi. I just tried an interesting thing. Uploaded a PDF with images to google drive. Right clicked the PDF and open with google docs. Then the PDF was converted to a google doc and I could download the PDF as an odt and edit it. Steve Information please: what is a google drive? --doug -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
Hi :) Ahh, you can use google-docs without having a gmail account. I can login using my yahoo account. Gmail obviously integrates it better to make it easier to use. I think there is a small amount of space just from using google-docs. I think google-drive is an extra amount of space you can use. I get 5Gb from Ubuntu One but that doesn't seem to have some of the clever functionality google's offerings have but on the other hand it automatically syncs with my Ubuntu machine at home and then again with my Ubuntu machine at work. I think google's syncs with google phones and things? Regards from Tom :) From: Steve Edmonds steve.edmo...@ptglobal.com To: Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Saturday, 6 April 2013, 23:28 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem On 2013-04-07 09:25, Doug wrote: On 04/06/2013 01:22 AM, Steve Edmonds wrote: Hi. I just tried an interesting thing. Uploaded a PDF with images to google drive. Right clicked the PDF and open with google docs. Then the PDF was converted to a google doc and I could download the PDF as an odt and edit it. Steve Information please: what is a google drive? --doug Hi. Google keeps changing the name of things. When you get a gmail account you have a thing also called google docs which might now be called google drive. When you sign into your gmail account it is up the top google navigation bar. Steve -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
When I open the PDF file and try to export it, all I see are graphics formats (e.g., .bpm, .jpeg, .wfm etc.). I've tried several and they are importable into my document (as a picture), but it seems that only one page was exported, which is more complicated than copying and pasting from each page of the draw object. In the mean time, I've discovered a free conversion site, www.zamzar.com, and they were able to convert the PDF files to odt (with the images as bitmaps. Now here's another strange thing: I can use LO to open the converted file and the document looks as I expect; however, when I insert the file (insert-file) into my larger document, only the text is picked up, leaving blank spaces where the images should go. This sounds like a bug, but perhaps there is some setting that controls this. One other thing: when I open the single/converted pdf-odt document, the navigator shows draw objects and graphics objects as 0. On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 08:36 +0200, Fernand Vanrie wrote: Op 05/04/2013 22:18, David Ronis schreef: I'm currently working on a large project that requires me to import many documents from my colleagues, some in word or PDF formats, into a single file. Libreoffice doesn't work if I try Insert-File... on a PDF file (I get an error popup saying Error rereading the file). I can open the PDF file (in draw) and cut and paste each PDF page into the document, but that is painful. Is there a way to make File-Insert work, perhaps via a macro? it can surly been automated, import the PDF in draw and then export the elements to a writerdoc, you will find a lot of code in the Gimmicks library (gettextsgetdrawstrings) hope it helps Fernand If not, consider this a feature request. David -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
Hi Jay, Thanks for the reply. I'm using Linux (Slackware). Unfortunately, exporting to text is not an option here as the PDF's contain various drawings that can't be omitted. David -Original Message- From: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:18:42 -0400 On 04/05/2013 04:18 PM, David Ronis wrote: I'm currently working on a large project that requires me to import many documents from my colleagues, some in word or PDF formats, into a single file. Libreoffice doesn't work if I try Insert-File... on a PDF file (I get an error popup saying Error rereading the file). I can open the PDF file (in draw) and cut and paste each PDF page into the document, but that is painful. Is there a way to make File-Insert work, perhaps via a macro? If not, consider this a feature request. David What OS are you using? In some pdf readers you can export the entire file as a plain text file and this file can be opened in Writer or imported into Calc. I do not know if this would less or more painful. You would have the entire file at once but would need to format the text. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
On 04/05/2013 05:18 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 04/05/2013 04:18 PM, David Ronis wrote: I'm currently working on a large project that requires me to import many documents from my colleagues, some in word or PDF formats, into a single file. Libreoffice doesn't work if I try Insert-File... on a PDF file (I get an error popup saying Error rereading the file). I can open the PDF file (in draw) and cut and paste each PDF page into the document, but that is painful. Is there a way to make File-Insert work, perhaps via a macro? If not, consider this a feature request. David What OS are you using? In some pdf readers you can export the entire file as a plain text file and this file can be opened in Writer or imported into Calc. I do not know if this would less or more painful. You would have the entire file at once but would need to format the text. The most painless option is find a PDF to .doc [.odt] conversion package. I know that there are some low costing package that do this, but I would like to see a free one somewhere. The large project and many documents seem to me that if the number is large enough, you would want to have an auto-conversion package for the PDF documents. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
Hi :) I tend to find importing as plain text and then applying styles saves me hours and hours. Before doing that people's mad formatting would drive me nuts. I've managed to stop them sending me Pdfs too. Mostly it was the argument about being consistent through-out the newsletter but it also helped to respect people's aims rather than their results and the positive comments from readers didn't hurt. It depends how slavish you have to be. This answer (to stand up for yourself) may not help. Regards from Tom :) From: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 5 April 2013, 22:18 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem On 04/05/2013 04:18 PM, David Ronis wrote: I'm currently working on a large project that requires me to import many documents from my colleagues, some in word or PDF formats, into a single file. Libreoffice doesn't work if I try Insert-File... on a PDF file (I get an error popup saying Error rereading the file). I can open the PDF file (in draw) and cut and paste each PDF page into the document, but that is painful. Is there a way to make File-Insert work, perhaps via a macro? If not, consider this a feature request. David What OS are you using? In some pdf readers you can export the entire file as a plain text file and this file can be opened in Writer or imported into Calc. I do not know if this would less or more painful. You would have the entire file at once but would need to format the text. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
Hi :) Ouch! Single images are ok as you can right-click and save them or even just drag them out of the Pdf sometimes but if it's tons of logos or overlapping images then it can be a total Pita. My cheating way was to use Gimp to import (luckily only a page or 2 at a time and only a couple in the entire thing), crop and resize, sometimes change RGB into indexed and then alpha channel the white-space and plonked on the page. After a few of those people stopped sending me stuff as Pdfs! :)) Regards from Tom :) From: David Ronis ro...@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca To: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 5 April 2013, 22:28 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Hi Jay, Thanks for the reply. I'm using Linux (Slackware). Unfortunately, exporting to text is not an option here as the PDF's contain various drawings that can't be omitted. David -Original Message- From: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:18:42 -0400 On 04/05/2013 04:18 PM, David Ronis wrote: I'm currently working on a large project that requires me to import many documents from my colleagues, some in word or PDF formats, into a single file. Libreoffice doesn't work if I try Insert-File... on a PDF file (I get an error popup saying Error rereading the file). I can open the PDF file (in draw) and cut and paste each PDF page into the document, but that is painful. Is there a way to make File-Insert work, perhaps via a macro? If not, consider this a feature request. David What OS are you using? In some pdf readers you can export the entire file as a plain text file and this file can be opened in Writer or imported into Calc. I do not know if this would less or more painful. You would have the entire file at once but would need to format the text. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
On Fri, 5 Apr 2013, David Ronis wrote: Hi Jay, Thanks for the reply. I'm using Linux (Slackware). Unfortunately, exporting to text is not an option here as the PDF's contain various drawings that can't be omitted. David what format does this 'single file' have to be in? if it can be itself a pdf then use pdftk. pdftk allows you to 'join' multiple pdfs into one. take the .doc stuff and convert to pdf then put it all together via pdftk. the syntax for pdftk is a bit weird (I find it hard to remember) but at the same time very simple. Felmon -Original Message- From: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:18:42 -0400 On 04/05/2013 04:18 PM, David Ronis wrote: I'm currently working on a large project that requires me to import many documents from my colleagues, some in word or PDF formats, into a single file. Libreoffice doesn't work if I try Insert-File... on a PDF file (I get an error popup saying Error rereading the file). I can open the PDF file (in draw) and cut and paste each PDF page into the document, but that is painful. Is there a way to make File-Insert work, perhaps via a macro? If not, consider this a feature request. David What OS are you using? In some pdf readers you can export the entire file as a plain text file and this file can be opened in Writer or imported into Calc. I do not know if this would less or more painful. You would have the entire file at once but would need to format the text. -- Felmon Davis He who gives promptly gives twice. -- Miguel de Cervantes -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted