On Feb 27, 2014, at 2:28 PM, Armin Le Grand wrote: > On 27.02.2014 15:00, Kay Schenk wrote: >> >> ----------------------------------- >>> >>> 2) A series of questions on proposed features and how we decide on >>> new features, including: >>> >>> a) Is it possible to include a 'Track Change' feature in OpenOffice >>> like the one in MS Word? >>> >>> b) When will OpenOffice be able to support saving in (.doc) for >>> Microsoft Word 2012-2014? >>> >>> c) Does Open Office plan to add capability to print out marginal >>> comments/notes on the document page where they appear instead of as a >>> separate list at the end of the document?" >>> >>> d) Will OpenOffice users be able to import a "PDF" file, update it, >>> and export the updated file? >>> >>> >>> e) How does you decide what features to put into OpenOffice? >>> >>> f) What is the average time it takes you to fix a bug? add a new feature? >>> >>> Rob: I thought we'd lump these all together and give an in-depth >>> response about how features and bug fixes are prioritized in a >>> volunteer-led open source project at Apache. >> >> The PDF question seems like a much larger animal than some of the others to >> me. Probably on par with b) -- on a larger scale maybe. >> >> It may need a larger/longer explanation on its own. > > I see two reasons we do not have that 'roundtrip': > > (1) The PDF exporter needs to work Page-oriented since PDF is. That is the > main reason the import was implemented originally for draw format, not for > Writer. When importing to Writer, the Page breaks would not be guaranteed. > Also the imported text is not 'floating' text in the classical sense of a > Writer paragraph - this was AFAIK not possible with the import method chosen. > Thus it would not behave well in Writer when you klick somewhere in such a > imported document and start writing. > > (2) There are enough (even free) programs that add 'overlay' to PDF, e.g. for > signing documents, so this is not needed to be done by AOO, too.
I am giving two presentations at Apachecon. One of these is about Osmosis a tool my team at work developed that converts PDFs to editable PowerPoint and HTML5 files. It uses Apache PDFBox and Apache POI. My hope is that this can become a software grant, currently preparing to jump through the necessary corporate hoops. Regards, Dave > >> >>> >>> ----------------------------------- >>> >>> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
