At 09:18 25/02/2016 +0100, M Henri Day wrote:
2016-02-25 1:21 GMT+01:00 Robert Carney:
I tried Henri's suggestion to scan the form to a PDF and edit that
in Open Office. Maybe I don't know how to open a PDF file in Open
Office because every time I try to open the file, Open Office 4.1.2
crashes. I tried clicking on "open" and selecting the proper file
and I tried clicking on text document and, either way, Open Office
crashes as soon as I select the PDF file. Otherwise, it works just
fine on other files, etc.
Robert, I get the impression - which may be erroneous - that you
tried to open the pdf file in OpenOffice Writer. What happens if you
try to open it in OpenOffice Draw ?...
Surely it is a fallacy to suppose that you can open files "in Writer"
or "in Draw"? These names for components merely describe the type of
document that is being handled. And if you *open* a file in
OpenOffice (which is all you can do - not in a specific component),
you generally don't get a choice of how it is interpreted: text files
are interpreted as text, spreadsheet files as spreadsheets, and so
on. And PDFs are not interpreted at all - except perhaps
misinterpreted as the text files that they indeed are.
Some users think that if they have a text file open they are somehow
"in Writer" and that this will influence how further documents are
opened. They are suffering from Microsoftitis: Word, Excel, and so on
are indeed separate programs. But OpenOffice is an integrated application.
You can, of course *insert* various items - including a graphic of a
PDF document - into different types of OpenOffice documents. And
inserting an image of a PDF form into a drawing (Draw) document as a
picture is (as I mentioned earlier) one way to deal with the enquirer's need.
Brian Barker
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