Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Pdf import. Was: Fw: Wiki quick guide page - see if this is a good format. . .

Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> I'm not sure what i did.  Something fairly hideous.  I think i might have used Gimp to make it into 
> a Gif or Png image and then inserted that.  I'm kinda flailing around with Pdfs at the moment.
> Regards from
> Tom :)  
>
>   
Tom,
That does sound painful! 
As a test, I was successful at Inserting a PDF as a Draw OLE object in a 
Writer document.  Here is what I did:

  1. Using the PDF importer, I opened the PDF file, which brings up Draw.
  2. While in Draw, I saved the PDF file as an ODF Draw file.
  3. I opened a new Writer document.
  4. Using Insert -> Object -> OLE Object -> LibreOffice 3.5 Drawing, I
     got a Draw window embedded in the Writer document.
  5. Double-click on the Draw object window to bring up the draw OLE.
  6. Open the ODF file saved in step #2.
  7. Click outside the Draw OLE window (anywhere in the document but
     the Draw OLE window) to get out of Draw.
  8. You should have the PDF image from step #1 now in Writer.

Note that the PDF importer does not seem to work if attempting to 
directly open the PDF file in step #6.  It seems to think it is opening 
the PDF in Writer, not the Draw OLE window.  There are many limitations 
to the Draw OLE that the Draw program itself does not have.
You may have to do some scaling or dragging the Draw window tags around 
to get the size you want.  Note that the Object properties dialog has a 
lot to do with formatting this object (right click on the Draw OLE -> 
select Object).
Hope this helps.
Girvin Herr

>   
> > ________________________________
> > From: Girvin R. Herr <girvin.herr@sbcglobal.net>
> > To: Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> 
> > Cc: Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu>; "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org> 
> > Sent: Wednesday, 5 December 2012, 23:34
> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Pdf import. Was: Fw: Wiki quick guide page - see if this is a 
> > good format. . .
> >
> >
> >
> > Tom Davies wrote:
> >     
> > > Hi :)
> > > There are many different sorts of Pdfs (fdf "and what-not" as Amiko says in interviews on Nasa tele).  Sometimes forms can be filled out using a proper Pdf reader such as Foxit (a good Pdf reader in Windows) but sometimes people try to make things difficult so that you are forced into using Adobe's Pdf reader, or use a work-around as you did with the frst one in Draw (sounded like a Pita though).    
> > >       
> > Tom,
> > Actually, no.  I found it was fairly easy to do in Draw.
> >
> >     
> > > One company sent me a Pdf form to fill in and then complained that i returned it as a Pdf!  It had been a bit ilke a multiple choice in that it had one question per line but instead of the choices it just left the rest of the line empty.  I pulled the form into Writer, set it as the background, added a 2 column table on top and adjusted the row's widths to fit the form and then wrote on my layer and saved as Pdf.  I was really chuffed because it's the first time i had managed anything like it with Pdfs but then got a complaint!    
> > >       
> > That was their problem, not yours.  Sounds like they are in the last century.  Unless they wanted the ability 
> > to change your entries without your permission.  I hope you didn't sign it! How did you "pull" the 
> > PDF form into Writer?!
> >
> > <snip>
> > Girvin Herr
> >
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