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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Open Office: PDF import
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:58:01
Message-Id: 20090218055756.GE4656@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Open Office: PDF import by "Sebastián Magrí"
1 090217 Sebastián Magrí wrote:
2 > On Tue, February 17, 2009 7:26 am, Philip Webb wrote:
3 >> Has anyone succeeded in importing a PDF to Open Office Impress or Draw ?
4 >> I've added the add-on from from under /usr/... (as it says),
5 >> but when I try to 'insert file' using a 1-page PDF ,
6 >> it says 'File could not be opened' (after some CPU activity);
7 >> OO Writer opens it as 98 pages of garbage.
8 >> I tried rebooting & re-opening OO, but not change.
9 >> There's nothing in OO Help re the add-on or importing PDFs.
10 >> I'm using OO 3.0.1 .
11 > I've been using it for a while without problems.
12 > I installed it on my user space using the extension manager.
13 > Sometimes it does not open the objects in a correct way,
14 > maybe have relation with the version of the pdf.
15 > For example, the pdfs generated in m$ project takes very much time to open
16 > with high CPU activity, it happens too when I open it on evince
17 > so I think it's a problem of m$, as usual.
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19 I created a PDF from a 1-page .odt file created with OO 3.0.0
20 & had the same negative result. The file opens correctly in Kpdf.
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22 This is a 64-bit system: might that have something to do with it ?
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