Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem

On 04/05/2013 05:18 PM, Jay Lozier wrote:
> On 04/05/2013 04:18 PM, David Ronis wrote:
> > I'm currently working on a large project that requires me to import many
> > documents from my colleagues, some in word or PDF formats, into a single
> > file.  Libreoffice doesn't work if I try Insert->File... on a PDF file
> > (I get an error popup saying Error rereading the file).
> >
> > I can open the PDF file (in draw) and cut and paste each PDF page into
> > the document, but that is painful.
> >
> > Is there a way to make File->Insert work, perhaps via a macro?  If not,
> > consider this a feature request.
> >
> > David
> What OS are you using?
>
> In some pdf readers you can export the entire file as a plain text 
> file and this file can be opened in Writer or imported into Calc. I do 
> not know if this would less or more painful. You would have the entire 
> file at once but would need to format the text.

The most painless option is find a PDF to .doc [.odt] conversion 
package. I know that there are some low costing package that do this, 
but I would like to see a free one somewhere.

The "large project" and "many documents" seem to me that if the number 
is large enough, you would want to have an auto-conversion package for 
the PDF documents.

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