At 09:54 26/04/2007 -0700, Malgorzata Krych-Goldberg wrote:
Is there an option for the conversion of PDF files to Openoffic/word
documents in your OpenOffice software?
The simple answer is "No." The longer answer is almost "Yes."
The first point to make is that you should not be trying to do
this. The PDF format is designed for transmitting finalised
documents between users of different platforms in a convenient and
reproducible way. It is not designed for retrieving formatted text
and does not serve this purpose well. If at all possible, go back to
the source of the document and get a copy of the word processor
document (or whatever) that was very probably used to create the PDF file.
But there is a simple way to achieve what you want. Open the PDF in
the freeware Adobe Reader. (You have this - right?) Select all the
text and copy it to the clipboard (or use the "Copy File to
Clipboard" function.) Then simply paste this into a new word
processor document. (This could be in Microsoft Word or OpenOffice
Writer.) You will retain some but not all of the formatting, and you
will probably have to sew individual lines back into paragraphs. But
it will save you retyping everything.
And yes: if you use OpenOffice Writer, you can then save the
resulting document as a Word (.doc) file if you wish.
Brian Barker
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