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
<[email protected]>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
>
> 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 <[email protected]>
>>> To: Jay Lozier <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: [email protected]
>>> 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 <[email protected]>
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> 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
>>> [email protected]
>>>
>>>
>
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