<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Wow, David, How did I talk down to you? I suggested that you made copies of stuff before converting it. I'm actually older than you and started writing assembler for Control Data when you, if you are 60 were probably still in School, and device drivers for CP/M in the UK before Garry (or, some say his wife) had a falling out with IBM and Bill stepped in, thus Windows appeared.. My advice that you should make copies was based on making many, many screw ups myself and was intended to be helpful. I also pointed you at a service that would take your .pdf and convert back to a .doc. Wasn't that what you wanted to do? If your infantile response was intended to reinforce your observation "I am 60 yrs old and getting a bit senile already." you sure did a good job of emphasizing that! So, again, my advice is 1. Back up before converting. 2. After failing to do so, take 10 seconds on Google to find a way to convert back, don't blame FOS software, simply go pay a high price and buy some bug ridden windoze stuff, it apparently makes you feel better to know that their bugs are 'features'... Colin (With apologies to others on this list, I really thought I was helping this guy..) On 09/01/13 19:46, David M. Pelly wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:BLU171-W695C841325EDD0FDEF0C1690300@phx.gbl" type="cite"> <style></style> <div dir="ltr">Colin, Any product is only as good as it's service. I tried to use Ubuntu for a few months and I had too many problems and too poor service. Sometimes it takes days or weeks to get a reply. And often with a sarcarstic "attitude", often talking down to me, like you are. Very, very unprofessional. No people skills. Poor communication skills. No customer service skills. Very low calibre. More like: "Pool room- bar attitude" Pretty much "smart ass" talk. Very much unrefined- rogue people. Very low on the scale of intellectual and professional development. Not everyone, but most. Bob in KW and a guy in Calgary stand above the crowd. And often I get an answer in "computer speak" , which a person has to have a degree in computer science or something equivalent to understand. I am 60 yrs old and getting a bit senile already. If a person is a "geek" then I can see the good in Ubuntu. But Ubuntu is not user friendly for non geeks or old foggies. So I switched back to Windows. I use Rogers telecom Techxpert for $10 per months. If I have any problem, I click on "chat with a Techxpert" on my desk top screen icon and they come on line in minutes and and I get the problem solved quickly and with very good attitudes. Rogers is a major IP - phone and cable tv provider in Ontario. They will bend over backwards to help with just about anything on the computer or on line. And as soon as I am done, I get a "customer satisfaction" questionaire, where I evaluate the service I got and send it to them. All true professionals and respectable companies and people who want to be the best, use customer satisfaction questionnaires now. Professionals know that critics are their best teachers. Rogers will not help with Ubuntu. I am using "Ubuntu list" because Libre is a Linux product. I was on the Libre page and I can't make head or tail from it. Thanks for the rest of your information. Will give a shot tomorrow. Too late tonight. Thanks, David <div> <hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 19:12:42 -0700 From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:colinmcc@direct.ca">colinmcc@direct.ca</a> To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Subject: Re: How to convert pdf back to libre office? <div class="ecxmoz-cite-prefix">David, I'm somewhat confused.. If you are using libre under windows, why post to an Ubuntu list? In future before converting anything from one format to another, always save a backup, for example your original xyz.doc also saved as xyz.doc.bak so if things go awry you can go back to the original and start again. This will save you many hours of head scratching and frustration both now and in the future. You could try an online service such as <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="ecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pdfonline.com/pdf-to-word-converter/" target="_blank">http://www.pdfonline.com/pdf-to-word-converter/</a> To get your .doc back from the .pdf, depending on how 'sensitive' the .pdf content is of course. Let us know if this works please. Colin Osoyoos BC . On 09/01/13 17:27, David M. Pelly wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:BLU171-W24B93916287A91C99C156F90300@phx.gbl"> <style></style> <div dir="ltr">Jun, Thank you for your reply. I am using libre on windows. This is what I found: <h1><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/18201/pdf-import-does-not-show-in-extension-manager/" target="_blank">PDF Import does not show in Extension Manager</a></h1> <ul id="ecxquestion-tags" class="ecxtags ecxpost-tags ecxtags"> <li class="ecxtag-left"><a moz-do-not-send="true" class="ecxtag ecxtag-right ecxpost-tag" href="http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/questions/scope:all/sort:activity-desc/tags:pdf/page:1/" title="see questions tagged 'pdf'" rel="tag" data-tag-name="pdf" target="_blank">pdf</a></li> <li class="ecxtag-left"><a moz-do-not-send="true" class="ecxtag ecxtag-right ecxpost-tag" href="http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/questions/scope:all/sort:activity-desc/tags:import/page:1/" title="see questions tagged 'import'" rel="tag" data-tag-name="import" target="_blank">import</a></li> <li class="ecxtag-left"><a moz-do-not-send="true" class="ecxtag ecxtag-right ecxpost-tag" href="http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/questions/scope:all/sort:activity-desc/tags:pdf-import/page:1/" title="see questions tagged 'pdf-import'" rel="tag" data-tag-name="pdf-import" target="_blank">pdf-import</a></li> <li class="ecxtag-left"><a moz-do-not-send="true" class="ecxtag ecxtag-right ecxpost-tag" href="http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/questions/scope:all/sort:activity-desc/tags:draw/page:1/" title="see questions tagged 'draw'" rel="tag" data-tag-name="draw" target="_blank">draw</a></li> </ul> <div class="ecxpost-body"> <div class="ecxpost-update-info-container"> <div class="ecxpost-update-info"> asked <abbr class="ecxtimeago" title="2013-05-28 17:00:23 +0200">May 28 '13</abbr> <img moz-do-not-send="true" src="mailbox:///home/colin/.thunderbird/4tegmzsm.default/Mail/mail.look.ca/Drafts?number=461795&v=5" alt="this post is marked as community wiki" style="" height="35" width="35"> This post is a wiki. Anyone with karma >75 is welcome to improve it. </div> <div class="ecxpost-update-info"> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/questions/18201/revisions/" target="_blank">updated <abbr class="ecxtimeago" title="2013-06-11 15:03:57 +0200">Jun 11 '13</abbr></a> <div class="ecxuser-card"> <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="ecxavatar-box" href="http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/users/360/manj_k/" target="_blank"><img moz-do-not-send="true" class="ecxgravatar" src="mailbox:///home/colin/.thunderbird/4tegmzsm.default/Mail/mail.look.ca/Drafts?number=461795&s=32&d=identicon&r=PG" title="manj_k" alt="manj_k gravatar image" height="32" width="32"></a> <div class="ecxuser-info"> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/users/360/manj_k/" target="_blank">manj_k</a> 6546 ●7 ●39 ●67 </div> </div> </div> </div> PDF Import does not show in Extension Manager. It was installed on LO4 and Debian Testing (Wheezy) via "aptitude install libreoffice-pdfimport". It is interesting to see that the very first item under features (/www.libreoffice.org/features/extensions/) is PDF Import, but it not found anywhere at the Extension Center (extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center). This needs to be corrected, too. Also, it still very problematic with many PDF files. Last, but not least, the TAGS box below needs to be adjusted to allow more than 20 characters per tag. For example, I just tried to enter "libreoffice-pdfimport", but it did not allow. </div> <div> <hr id="ecxstopSpelling">Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 18:34:29 -0400 Subject: Re: How to convert pdf back to libre office? From: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="ecxmoz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:johneddie.kerr@gmail.com">johneddie.kerr@gmail.com</a> To: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="ecxmoz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Hi David There is a PDF importer for LibreOffice. You can download it from the extensions download. Cheers Jun Kerr <div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Sep 1, 2013 10:02 AM, "David M. Pelly" <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:david.pelly@hotmail.ca">david.pelly@hotmail.ca</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div> <div dir="ltr"> <div>I made a libre office document. I wanted to send it to someone, so I converted it to pdf. Now, I want to edit it and I see the original libre doc is gone. And the pdf won't let me edit it. If it is possible, I don't see how? It is not user friendly. I would prefer to be able to convert the pdf back to libre office doc. Can that be done? If so how? 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