2016-02-25 9:51 GMT+01:00 Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com>: > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
I stand corrected, Brian, thank you ! Despite being a long-time Linux user, I seem to be suffering from Microsoftitis. My apologies to Robert for a meaningless suggestion !... Henri
