Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem

Hi.
I just tried an interesting thing.
Uploaded a PDF with images to google drive. Right clicked the PDF and 
open with google docs. Then the PDF was converted to a google doc and I 
could download the PDF as an odt and edit it.

Steve

On 2013-04-06 10:50, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Ouch!  Single images are ok as you can right-click and save them or even just drag them out of the Pdf 
> sometimes but if it's tons of logos or overlapping images then it can be a total Pita.  My cheating way was 
> to use Gimp to import (luckily only a page or 2 at a time and only a couple in the entire thing), crop and 
> resize, sometimes change RGB into "indexed" and then alpha channel the white-space and plonked on 
> the page.  After a few of those people stopped sending me stuff as Pdfs! :))
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
>
> > ________________________________
> > From: David Ronis <ronis@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca>
> > To: Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com>
> > Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > Sent: Friday, 5 April 2013, 22:28
> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
> >
> >
> > Hi Jay,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply.  I'm using Linux (Slackware).  Unfortunately,
> > exporting to text is not an option here as the PDF's contain various
> > drawings that can't be omitted.
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com>
> > To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem
> > Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:18:42 -0400
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > --
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> > jslozier@gmail.com
> >
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