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Libre Office 3 Wont open PDFs properly

Asked by RAY ROBINSON

When I try to open PDFs for eg by double clicking a file icon I am presented with a dialog box letting me chose one of many text filters. I have tried a number of these but to no avail. What I get is many hundreds of pages with only a couple of lines of meaningless text on each.

  As Open office worked for me in all respects I tried to load it as an alternative to Libre Office but whilst it seemed to download ok it didn't appear anywhere on the program selection areas of 11.04. Referring back to "Software Centre" it now shows as an installed program.

No having much luck am I? Can anyone out there help?

Ray

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Best Ian Ace (iaculallad) said : 		#1

Right-click on the PDF file and choose 'Evince' application to open it.

HTH.

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) said : 		#2

Hi Ray

If you want it shown in the Launcher (down the left hand side of the screen) just hit the Super Key (usually has a Windows logo on it), which gives you the Dash, and key in 'lib'. This should give you the LibreOffice programs. Just drag the ones you want on to the Launcher.

If you want to open a PDF for editing, there is an extension add-on to do this, but when last I tried it, it was very limited. The problem with PDFs is that they are not supposed to be edited. The best I have found is a tool called OCRFeeder (it is in the Ubuntu Software Centre) which uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) techniques to convert a PDF to an ODT file that LibreOffice Writer can open.

Tony

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RAY ROBINSON (raymond-robinson) said : 		#3

Thanks Ian Ace, that solved my question.