Comments on OpenOffice.org Ninja: PDF import and hybrid PDFs

At last! -the fonts can get saved into an .odt, od...

2010-05-08T01:20:52.357-06:00

At last! -the fonts can get saved into an .odt, odg etc. This will be -SO- handy!!

(N.B. Previously submitted at http://wiki.services...

2010-03-15T21:19:38.790-06:00

(N.B. Previously submitted at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Writer/ToDo/PDF_Import)

A key tool for many documents is "marking up" and saving such personal highlites and commentaries for documents we download for review/research purposes. The PDF-import function would be a key enabler of this irreplaceable activity. Allow me to expand. Not often consciously considered as for this specific purpose, PDF is also deemed an archival format, meaning a frozen snapshot in time. If one expects to make use of this original, unmodified form, every time, PDF is often stored in a common repository for search and retrieval. However, for more personal use, as for researchers identifying citations relevant to a given study, this original form must be either

a) printed and highlited to bring attention to relevent excerpts, or

b) excerpted and copy/pasted into a separate file for such references.

It would be desirable to be able to save the highliting mask, with possible commentary, either into a personalized version of the PDF file, or as a separate "commentary" file. The commentaries, if stored separately, would minimize what needs to be forwarded when collaborating, and would minimize the data growth if large groups of reviewers need to store such commentaries in the same central repository. If a first level of capability for the import was ONLY to facilitate this highliting overlay process, it would truly address a widespread need.

Dexter: Try and open it in OpenOffice.org? :)

2009-07-22T07:53:41.193-06:00

Dexter: Try and open it in OpenOffice.org? :)

how do you identify if it is a regular pdf file or...

2009-07-22T06:28:03.650-06:00

how do you identify if it is a regular pdf file or a hybrid pdf file?

Anonymous (Apr 17): That may be bug 92908 "ignores transformation matrix on an image."

http://uwf.edu/envhs/pdffiles/ELECSAFt.pdf I had ...

2009-04-17T15:08:00.000-06:00

http://uwf.edu/envhs/pdffiles/ELECSAFt.pdf

I had a problem with this page, some of the images arrive flipped.

otherwise great program.

Does any one know how to add hyperlinks to the PDF...

2009-03-17T19:05:00.000-06:00

Does any one know how to add hyperlinks to the PDF file once it has been imported?

The PDF file had working hyperlinks before the import, after exporting the new version of the PDF the hyperlinks did not work.

Any suggestions?

Thank you.

I've found that import seems to work for Windows 3...

2009-02-17T11:07:00.000-07:00

I've found that import seems to work for Windows 32-bit but not Linux 64-bit: when I try to open a PDF I had earlier accessed in Linux 32-bit, it opened without trouble, and it also opened without trouble under Windows 32-bit, but was opened as text under Linux 64-bit with the PDF import extension installed and (apparently) active.

Is this a known issue?

Jonathan
Jonathan's Corner: A Library of Free Online Books to Read

This worked great for PDFs that were setup in Port...

2009-01-26T19:00:00.000-07:00

This worked great for PDFs that were setup in Portrait. But I had problems with a PDF setup as Landscape...

ı have followed your writing for a long time.reall...

2008-12-27T08:09:00.000-07:00

ı have followed your writing for a long time.really you have given very successful information.
In spite of my english trouale,I am trying to read and understand your writing.
And ı am following frequently.I hope that you will be with us together with much more scharings.
I hope that your success will go on.

I downloaded this extension and was surprised at h...

2008-10-22T07:14:00.000-06:00

I downloaded this extension and was surprised at how poorly it imported the US Internal Revenue Service's 1040 form. Text ran over into other fields, the '20' in 2008 was a few cm too high, and I couldn't figure out how to add my own text to blank spaces, so that I could fill out the form.

Boo...Hiss...this extension sucks and is not ready for prime time. This is alpha quality, not beta.

Hi, Just installed ver 3 from a mirror site and ad...

2008-10-15T17:37:00.000-06:00

Hi, Just installed ver 3 from a mirror site and added the pdf extension.

Noticed with Hybrid...

if you start with a passworded odt, then export a hybrid without adding pdf security, you get the pdf viewed immediately in a reader as expected, but when opening the hybrid pdf in OpenOffice, Writer opens the odt without needing any pass phrase.

So, it seems that to protect the odt in a hybrid, you have to protect the hybrid pdf?

BTW, I don't use certificates and such, but I guess an "MD5" of the odt if saved from the PDF to disk again would be different than the passworded original?

(Maybe I'm missing something but thought I'd mention it sooner than later, and not to confuse the forum if the documentation hasn't caught up to the new feature yet)

Thanks

Bh

Anonymous: Thanks for the tip! :)

2008-06-11T07:40:00.000-06:00

Anonymous: Thanks for the tip! :)

You added a permalink for this article on http://w...

2008-06-11T04:39:00.000-06:00

You added a permalink for this article on http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Pdf_Import_Extension but this link is broken because of a missing l at the end of the link.

> Seems to be fixed in DEV300_m18

Yes, i...

2008-06-10T03:22:00.000-06:00

> Seems to be fixed in DEV300_m18

Yes, it works! Thanks.

Seems to be fixed in DEV300_m18

2008-06-09T14:48:00.000-06:00

Seems to be fixed in DEV300_m18

I filed a bug report for the C++ runtime error on Windows. There's a chance an OpenOffice.org build from Pavel's site would be a workaround.

Same error here:
R6034
An application has ma...

2008-06-09T04:23:00.000-06:00

Same error here:
R6034
An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrecty.

- WinXP Pro SP2 full update
- OOo-DEV300m17
- OOo 2.4

Hm, everytime I want to open a PDF file (downloade...

2008-06-08T10:35:00.000-06:00

Hm, everytime I want to open a PDF file (downloaded from the Internet) I get a runtime error on my windows system!

The message:

"R6034
An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrecty."

The pdf file:
http://svn.reactos.org/media/reactos_0.3.4_booklet_cover.pdf

well, with this extension PDF-Import is not workin...

2008-06-07T19:06:00.000-06:00

well, with this extension PDF-Import is not working

Martin

mandehu: Have you tried to rename the .jar to .oxt...

2008-06-06T07:17:00.000-06:00

mandehu: Have you tried to rename the .jar to .oxt? OpenOffice.org expects extensions to be .oxt. When I download using Firefox on Linux, it works fine.

Jakub Narebski: I think the hybrid PDF's container format is simply PDF. Wouldn't applications such as Acrobat Reader require special support for CDF? Also, I don't see references to any actual implementations of CDF.

Does this extension use CDF (Compound Document Format) from W3C?

(Although CFD is described to be used for XHTML, SVG, SMIL and XForms composite formats, I don't see why it could not work for PDF+ODF... well, perhaps except the fact that PDF is not XML based format, but again PNG also is not XML).

Your OO extension pdfimport.oxt poses a pb on my i...

2008-06-06T02:32:00.000-06:00

Your OO extension pdfimport.oxt poses a pb on my iMac Intel under Tiger 11: when I dl it it gets converted to pdfimport.oxt.jar. Unfortunatelymy system can't cope with .jar files -- I get an error message saying "Jar Launcher The jar file "pdfimport.oxt.jar" couldn't be launched. Check the Console for possible error messages". However the Java Console.log is *empty*.
Thank you for any help

Just a caution about the suggested alternative, in...

2008-06-05T20:54:00.000-06:00

Just a caution about the suggested alternative, inserting PDFs as OLE objects. It doesn't work unless whoever is viewing the document has something that can edit PDFs... one of the main reasons why this extension was needed and developed, I think.

Anonymous: While OpenOffice.org embeds fonts in PD...

2008-06-05T07:18:00.000-06:00

Anonymous: While OpenOffice.org embeds fonts in PDFs (including hybrid PDFs), it doesn't exactly embed fonts in OpenDocument Format files. If that is what you need, add 1-2 votes for issue 20370.

Comments on OpenOffice.org Ninja: PDF import and hybrid PDFs

At last! -the fonts can get saved into an .odt, od...

(N.B. Previously submitted at http://wiki.services...

Dexter: Try and open it in OpenOffice.org? :)

how do you identify if it is a regular pdf file or...

Anonymous (Apr 17): That may be bug 92908 "ignores transformation matrix on an image."

http://uwf.edu/envhs/pdffiles/ELECSAFt.pdf I had ...

Does any one know how to add hyperlinks to the PDF...

I've found that import seems to work for Windows 3...

This worked great for PDFs that were setup in Port...

ı have followed your writing for a long time.reall...

I downloaded this extension and was surprised at h...

Hi, Just installed ver 3 from a mirror site and ad...

Anonymous: Thanks for the tip! :)

You added a permalink for this article on http://w...

> Seems to be fixed in DEV300_m18Yes, i...

Seems to be fixed in DEV300_m18

I filed a bug report for the C++ runtime error on Windows. There's a chance an OpenOffice.org build from Pavel's site would be a workaround.

Same error here:R6034An application has ma...

Hm, everytime I want to open a PDF file (downloade...

well, with this extension PDF-Import is not workin...

mandehu: Have you tried to rename the .jar to .oxt...

Does this extension use CDF (Compound Document Format) from W3C?(Although CFD is described to be used for XHTML, SVG, SMIL and XForms composite formats, I don't see why it could not work for PDF+ODF... well, perhaps except the fact that PDF is not XML based format, but again PNG also is not XML).

Your OO extension pdfimport.oxt poses a pb on my i...

Just a caution about the suggested alternative, in...

Anonymous: While OpenOffice.org embeds fonts in PD...

> Seems to be fixed in DEV300_m18

Yes, i...

Same error here:
R6034
An application has ma...

Does this extension use CDF (Compound Document Format) from W3C?

(Although CFD is described to be used for XHTML, SVG, SMIL and XForms composite formats, I don't see why it could not work for PDF+ODF... well, perhaps except the fact that PDF is not XML based format, but again PNG also is not XML).