Re: [libreoffice-users] Comments after document as text

On Friday 04 May 2012 10:12 my mailbox was graced by a message from Rainer M 
Krug who wrote:
> > > I am workiong on a review using LibreOffice, and it works very nice -
> > > especially the "print comments at the end of the document" is very
> > > usefull. Now editors want the authors to reply to the comments
> > > individually, so it would be nice if the comments, including the line
> > > numbers and the pages, could be simply copied out of the document into
> > > the response to the editor. My question: is it possible to get the
> > > comments, in the same format with line numbers as in "print comments at
> > > the end of thew document", in a text file? any format (txt, odt, ...)
> > > would be fine.

> > A possible work-around, which I have used to extract the text of the
> > notes from an Impress presentation:
> > - Print your dicument to file as a .pdf
> > - Use pdftotext to extract the text to a .txt file.

> Thanks for the tip - yes, I am working on Linux, but the text is converted
> to pictures in the pdf - I am using the CUPS pdf printer. Can I use a
> different printer?

Dont use the CUPS .pdf printer, use the LO Print "print to file" option,
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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