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opening .pdf documents in Open Office Word Processor

Asked by John Wilson

When I try and open a .pdf document in Open Office Word Processor I get an ASCII filter options dialogue box.
Can I alter the defaults so that the document looks like the .pdf file?
What I then want to do is translate it into a .pdb file to load onto a PDA
Any suggestions?
Is there a command line script to do this task?
Regards
John

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/how-to-convert-pdf-to-pdb-and-vice-versa-344070/

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

There is also a plugin to open pdf in openoffice...

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) said : 		#3

Hi John

The extension to edit PDFs is quite limited (or at least it was when I tried it a while ago). You can only edit single lines of text. The link given by Marco gives you some idea of what it can do.

Tony

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John Wilson (jwilsondmartin) said : 		#4

Hi actionparsnip, Marco and Tony
Thank you for your help and good suggestions
I can now load my practice guidlines on my PDA
Thanks
John

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JonyGreen (jonygreen) said : 		#5

you can try this free online pdf to word converter(http://www.online-code.net/pdf-to-word.html) to convert pdf to word online.