Marc Hug wrote:
OK I downloaded "pdf2oo-20060811.tar.gz". And now, what can I do with
it ? There is no instruction about the way to use it.
What system are you using? It's primarily intended to run on Linux,
although any system that has the required software utilities installed
plus the "bash" shell interpreter should be able to run it. The required
software is usually already included in Linux as standard. There is a
little more info at http://pdf2oo.sourceforge.net/ but not much.
There's only one file inside the package that you need, which is the
pdf2oo shell script itself (yes, it's nothing more than a shell script -
which is why it shouldn't be too difficult to rewrite as a macro in
OOo). It calls other utilities to do the graphic conversion and final
zipping up of the OOo Impress document (each page of the PDF file is a
separate slide in an Impress presentation. Some of these are already
used by OOo if they exist.
In case anyone isn't familiar with unpacking these files on Linux,
here's the command line method. Run the following in a command shell:
tar zxvf pdf2oo-20060811.tar.gz pdf2oo
This will extract the script, which should be executable. If you prefer,
these packages can also be unpacked using GUI tools in most Linux
filesystem browsers by double clicking on the file's icon.
I run Fedora Core 3 Linux and had no trouble with the required software
utilities that pdf2oo needs. They were all there.
Once you have the script somewhere (/usr/local/bin is suggested), it is
easiest to run it in command line mode as follows:
pdf2oo -batch
This will display the command line usage options.
usage: pdf2oo [-batch|-interactive] [-color|-gray] [-r resolution]
[-transparent|-opaque] input_file [output_file]
Resolution is in dpi. Defaults are 150 dpi, grayscale, not transparent,
interactive.
I tried it on a junk pdf file as follows:
pdf2oo -batch junk.pdf
This produced a greyscale odp file at low resolution as expected.
I tried something a little harder, which also worked fine, but took
significantly longer to run and to load into OOo (but not unexpected):
pdf2oo -batch -color -r 600 -transparent junk.pdf
Here's the README file from inside the package:
This is a very simple program, just run it.
It is better enjoied when right-clicking on a pdf in a file manager, choosing
"open with..." -> oopdf.
Copy oopdf in /usr/local/bin so that every user in your system can use it.
You need the following commands to run pdf200:
text mode:
COMMAND | SUSE PACKAGE | DEBIAN PACKAGE
---------+--------------+---------------
pdfinfo | xpdf-config | xpdf-utils
pdftoppm | xpdf | xpdf-reader
convert | ImageMagick | imagemagick
zip | zip | zip
graphical mode:
Command | SUSE PACKAGE | DEBIAN PACKAGE
--------------+--------------+---------------
kdialog | kdebase3 | kdebase-bin
kmdr-executor | kdewebdev3 | kommander
dcop | kdelibs3 | kdelibs-bin
Bye, have fun.
Vincenzo Ciancia
vincenzo_ml at yahoo dot it
applejack at users dot sf dot net
ciancia at di dot unipi dot it
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Keith Bates a écrit :
On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:59:34 +1100
Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ross Johnson wrote:
Terry wrote:
[email protected] wrote:
Marc wrote:
I am interested too. What macro?
PDF2ODF
xan
jonathon
Honestly, Jonathon, this is like getting blood out of a stone. In
which library is that macro stored, please?
Googling for PDF2ODF didn't find it, but I assume this is it:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf2oo
Ross
Thanks for that. I'm not sure it's the same thing. The original
message referred to "the macro in the current version of OOo".
I don't have the current version installed. Anyone who does have it
installed will just have to search the macro libraries in the hope
of finding it.
There is an issue for this to be implemented, although for a number of
reasons it looks like it may never be included in OOo as such.
There seems to be some disagreement about whether it is a "Good
Thing" or not, and also Adobe's attitude to editing PDF files-
although I think that's a furphy. Take a look at:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10384
Take the time to register a vote for the issue to move it up the
priority list.
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