On Dec 6, 2011 8:33 PM, "Ric Moore" <<a href="mailto:wayward4now@gmail.com">wayward4now@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > On 12/06/2011 11:54 AM, LinuxIsOne wrote: >> >> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Oliver Grawert<<a href="mailto:ogra@ubuntu.com">ogra@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: >> >>> for openoffice there is openoffice.org-pdfimport >> >> >> But using it is troublesome, I cannot save the PDF normally since for >> whatever way I choose to save using this, some lines come >> automatically in between in the exported pdf! > > > The entire idea of a pdf file to is maintain the integrity of it, otherwise you could take someone else's work, make some edits and claim it as your own. If ~you~ composed a document for conversion to pdf, then you can likely edit the source document and convert again to pdf, because you created it. > > Just maybe someone doesn't want you to take their work and dink with it, so they published it in pdf format to be released. Just ask the original author of the pdf for the source document and get their approval to make changes to it. Simple really. I keep ALL of my source documents in a directory so I can safely edit them again, to convert to pdf files. But, I own them. Evidentially, you don't. :) Ric > > Surely no. The only reason may not be to change people's source docs!!! There could be many other reasons for editing a pdf like completing a form that is supplied as pdf instead of printing out and using a typewriter or block letters (as the requirement might be). Unless for a document created by pdfcups, the sun pdf import extension of open office draw does the trick for me. Greetings Def