For the last two years, it has been near the top of the list of most popular downloads on the OpenOffice. However, the extension does have some quirks and limitations that you have to learn to work around.
The first quirk you have to overcome is obtaining it. To start with, you need to be running OpenOffice. That is probably not a problem for most users, but finding a usable copy of the extension may be.
When you click the Get it! To download the extension, you need to be alert when your browser switches to the page that thanks you for downloading , and choose a manual download before you can get the file.
The easiest way to get the extension is to check your distribution's repository to see if it is included as a package, as in Debian. You will know if you have succeeded in installing if you try to open an PDF file and it displays in Draw.
By contrast, if you get a few characters of gibberish, you need to keep searching for another way of getting the extension. You might be able to find an alternative download site with an earlier version that you can use. Don't worry if the version number is far below the 1.
Unfortunately, it's a mixture of good and bad news. The good news is that the extension works extremely well with text, preserving all types of formatting including font size, bold, italics, strike-through and underlining.
Fonts, too are preserved, although their names are not always parsed correctly and may have a few additional characters at the end of them. Should the fonts not be available on your system, the extension tries to replace them with a font whose characters are metrically equivalent. The positioning, too, of text, is maintained in all-text documents, so that a brochure that has text scattered over the page is imported as accurately as a white paper that is a solid block of paragraphs.
The extension places each line of text in a separate text frame. Each fragment of a line separate by a tab or spacing is also placed in a separate text frame. This arrangement means that you can easily correct typos, or add a few words if the line is short. Add much more, and you will throw off the line spacing in the document. Please notice: Use this extension cautiously as editing PDF files is not a trivial task. Encouraged by the huge number of positive comments and the improved quality of this extension, we decided to remove the Beta tag from this release.
Of course we will continue to work on this extension to reflect user needs and any changes to the PDF standard. To further improve this extension, please continue sending us feedback at dev graphics. This release addresses several known issues and also introduces some new features: - Import of password-protected PDF files - Imported shapes with default style - Support for colors and transformations of bitmaps.
Please notice: Editing PDF files is not a trivial task.
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