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From: "Bob Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Harold Fuchs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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OpenOffice in and of itself can't open PDF files. You could try the
OpenOffice extension at
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport which, as you
can see, is quite new. Please note that, as stated on the web site, this
software is still in Beta testing.
And, "...it requires the OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta 2 to work."
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Bob Long
Bob and others:
I loaded the latest 3.0 beta a week or so ago and had the PDF reading
extention installed.
Using an AMD 64 Athlon at 2 gig speed and 1.25 gig of memory;
Reading a 6 page PDF document that was a list of books and their info.
It took over one hour to get the file opened and usable. That was the only
programming running except the normal background stuff that does not
cause any problems with OOo 2.41..
The best way I know of to read/edit PDF at this time is either use an
Adobe product or find a PDF reader/editor from a web site like
www.download.com or other free downloading site. I do remember that
there were several free version of software that would to the job. I
downloaded some a few months ago and tried them. They were not as
good as the Adobe products, but free is a good deal, plus there is some
low costing version that the trials worked well as well. I have Adobe
Reader 8.x and Adobe Acrobat 6 on my laptop, so I do not need any of
the free stuff. Just for your info, I also have Acrobat 7, and tried 8,
but I like Acrobat 6 over 7 and version 8 is too slow and takes over
1 gig of drive space. So I keep with the older stuff, since it works well.
So if you need to read the PDF files and edit it, I would use the free
stuff or try to use the Reader program and cut/paste to get the file
into OpenOffice.org, then edit it and resave it in a new PDF file.
It worked with earlier Reader programs, but I have not tried it
with the latest Reader updates.
Tim L. - aka Web at Work
or should it be Web at Home Working.
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