Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 45838
pdf as graphical file
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:41:38 UTC
Apologies if this has already been raised, but I can't find it anywhere. We have an issue for editing existing .pdf files: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10384 But I want to suggest something else: using .pdf as a graphical format for insert-picture-fromfile. I'm making this a 'framework' issue because it would be equally useful in all applications. I've got other software that does this, and jolly useful it is as well. Currently I am annotating some drawings supplied as .pdf files, and have to convert them to jpg to import them as a layer in draw, before adding my comments on another layer. If I could import the images directly from the .pdf it would be a lot simpler.
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Under windows, you can insert PDF as OLE objects. Most of the times this works.
At the moment I convert .pdf to .png & link the .png to a layer which I lock. How much better to avoid the conversion stage.
I'm trying to make a 25.000 pages printout using a PDF letterhead (well, actually an invoice). If I use a TIFF or PNG file as background (in good quality) it's not vector any more; hence it'll take enormous space and I guess my computer will die. This feature would be so handy!
Any thoughts yet?
I've written my own little suite of tools in order to be able to do the giant pdf mail merge that I needed. So for my part I just skipped the whole OpenOffice out of the equation; and boy did it make a difference. Where OO.org used 5 hours to make a pdf with just names on it, the whole process takes 5 minutes in python :-)