http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:55:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/25/open-office-pdf-import-extension/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/25/open-office-pdf-import-extension/#comments Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:46:48 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=7857 Sun’s PDF Import Extension for Open Office 3 and Star Office 9 adds pdf support to both office programs. The extension is currently labeled beta meaning that it does not provide full PDF support yet but can very well be used to edit small portions of a pdf document. Native PDF forms are not yet supported.

The PDF document will be imported into Draw and Impress to preserve the layout of the documents. This naturally means that Draw and Impress have to be installed to work with the PDF Import Extension. Plans are to concentrate on editing capabilities in the next development step concentrating on Writer. Just keep in mind that the current version of the PDF Import Extension supports layout and not editing.

PDF documents can be imported using the Open file dialog. Import takes relatively long but the results are surprisingly good for a beta. One interesting feature of the extension is the option to create hybrid documents that consists of a pdf and odf part. Users with Open Office installed will open the ODF version of the document while users without will load the pdf part.

Open Office users that work with PDF documents from time to timeshould pay close attention to the development of the PDF Import Extension.

Tags: adobe pdf, open office pdf, open-office, pdf, pdf extension, star office, star office pdf, sun, sun pdf import

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/25/open-office-pdf-import-extension/feed/ 1 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/09/o3find-star-office-full-text-search/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/09/o3find-star-office-full-text-search/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:18:26 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=7528 O3Find is a standalone Open Source application for Windows that can be installed or used as a portable application that can perform full text searches on Open Office and Star Office documents. To offer even more choice the application comes as a GUI and command line version.

The application supports searching multiple folders and files and can search through document metadata such as author or properties and the text in the documents. Besides that it can also search for other document formats like plain text and Microsoft Office files.

The graphical user interface looks pretty much like the Windows 95 search box with the option to pick all or specific file types, select the root folder and the phrase. The command line version supports additional parameters that makes it possible to apply a command to all discovered files or to highlight the lines where the phrase occurred.

The software developer is currently working on support for Open Office 2 documents which is currently not available. If Open Office 2 support is requested Windows users could install the IFilterShop plugin that can search those files as well and implements in Windows Search.

Tags: office, open office search, Open Source, open-office, portable software, star office, windows program, windows software

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the new version has a size between 106 and 150 Megabyte depending on the operating system that you download it for. Make sure you check out my tips on how to speed up Open Office loading times to make the most out of it.

Read More:

Open Office 2.3 Download
Release Notes

Tags: oo 2.3, open-office, star office, word alternative

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