[GRLUG] LibreOffice weirdness?

[Jeff DeFouw]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 10:03:43AM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> At 12:33 PM 5/31/2012, you wrote:
> >Is it possible that this is an Adobe tie-in/add-on for window's LO? I
> >don't have LO on Windows just guessing here.
> 
> Can you open a pdf with Draw on LInux? The PDF editing capability
> has been in LO since 3.1, IIRC - that was a major addition in the
> original move.
> 
> I opened the form it on Windoze, filled it in, and printed to a PDF
> [via PDF Creator]; opening again with Draw on Windoze and did the
> editing I needed, but on Linux it still refuses - it will only
> import as ASCII.

In Debian wheezy/sid, there is a package named libreoffice-pdfimport.
"This package contains an extension to open PDF documents with 
LibreOffice Draw."

-- 
Jeff DeFouw <mrj at plorb.com>