On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 08:51:02 +0000 Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> At 09:18 25/02/2016 +0100, M Henri Day wrote: > >2016-02-25 1:21 GMT+01:00 Robert Carney: > >>I tried Henri's suggestion to scan the form to a PDF and edit that > >>in Open Office. Maybe I don't know how to open a PDF file in Open > >>Office because every time I try to open the file, Open Office 4.1.2 > >>crashes. I tried clicking on "open" and selecting the proper file > >>and I tried clicking on text document and, either way, Open Office > >>crashes as soon as I select the PDF file. Otherwise, it works just > >>fine on other files, etc. > > > >Robert, I get the impression - which may be erroneous - that you > >tried to open the pdf file in OpenOffice Writer. What happens if you > >try to open it in OpenOffice Draw ?... > > Surely it is a fallacy to suppose that you can open files "in Writer" > or "in Draw"? These names for components merely describe the type of > document that is being handled. And if you *open* a file in > OpenOffice (which is all you can do - not in a specific component), > you generally don't get a choice of how it is interpreted: text files > are interpreted as text, spreadsheet files as spreadsheets, and so > on. And PDFs are not interpreted at all - except perhaps > misinterpreted as the text files that they indeed are. > > Some users think that if they have a text file open they are somehow > "in Writer" and that this will influence how further documents are > opened. They are suffering from Microsoftitis: Word, Excel, and so on > are indeed separate programs. But OpenOffice is an integrated application. > > You can, of course *insert* various items - including a graphic of a > PDF document - into different types of OpenOffice documents. And > inserting an image of a PDF form into a drawing (Draw) document as a > picture is (as I mentioned earlier) one way to deal with the enquirer's need. > > Brian Barker > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > Also, one might need to install the OpenOffice PDF extension, which permits limited editing of a pdf file; note that the exact version of the PDF extension to install is dependent on the version of OpenOffice in us; details of this are on the PDF extension page in the extensions repository. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
