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
