Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office Extensions

Hi Tom, all, 

On Wed, 25 May 2011 15:56:47 +0100 (BST)
Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi :)
> I think a lot of the Extension's devs haven't yet made them available for 
> LibreOffice.  Apparently most/many/some of the OpenOffice ones work if you can 
> find them but if you could contact the devs of your favourite Extensions then 
> they would probably be quite keen to add them to LibreOffice's collection.  I 
> have a feeling that it's usually pretty easy for the dev's of a particular 
> Extension to add it to LibreOffice's lists but just requires remembering (or 
> being nudged into remembering) to do it.  I doubt that it's possible to do them 
> all from the LibreOffice's end otherwise it would probably have been done 
> "en-masse" already.

I think the reason for not having those extensions transferred "automatically" was due to licensing 
reasons. I think I remember, that LibO only wants to have truly open extensions. But I can be 
wrong. :) 

> However i think there is already at least one that deals with importing Pdfs so 
> a search might help.  I have one called "PDF Import 1.0.4" which has a big 
> Oracle logo/icon rather than the sleek elegant LibreOffice or TDF style of 
> logos.  It opens Pdfs in Draw rather than Writer & so i can't edit text with it 
> (afaik).  I can move around blocks of text, pictures and stuff and i think i can 
> add blocks of text or pictures too.  I have a funny feeling that i probably 
> didn't need the extension at all as i seem to remember PDF import being added to 
> the main package recently.  

That's the default behaviour. PDF is a format to describe a graphical layout of a document. And for 
graphics, Draw is the correct component. It is not meant to edit a file extensively. You can add a 
few lines of text in a form (I did this just last week) and it works well. If you need to change 
the whole text, just ask the original creator for a editable file. 


Sigrid

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