Re: [gentoo-user] Open Office: PDF import

[Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>]

090217 Sebastián Magrí wrote:
> On Tue, February 17, 2009 7:26 am, Philip Webb wrote:
>> Has anyone succeeded in importing a PDF to Open Office Impress or Draw ?
>> I've added the add-on from from under  /usr/...  (as it says),
>> but when I try to 'insert file' using a 1-page PDF ,
>> it says 'File could not be opened' (after some CPU activity);
>> OO Writer opens it as  98  pages of garbage.
>> I tried rebooting & re-opening OO, but not change.
>> There's nothing in OO Help re the add-on or importing PDFs.
>> I'm using OO 3.0.1 .
> I've been using it for a while without problems.
> I installed it on my user space using the extension manager.
> Sometimes it does not open the objects in a correct way,
> maybe have relation with the version of the pdf.
> For example, the pdfs generated in m$ project takes very much time to open
> with high CPU activity, it happens too when I open it on evince
> so I think it's a problem of m$, as usual.

I created a PDF from a 1-page .odt file created with OO 3.0.0
& had the same negative result.  The file opens correctly in Kpdf.

This is a 64-bit system: might that have something to do with it ?

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