I receive many pdf files and must add, delete and modify the documents, and comment etc., etc.
Does LO v7 have a application for handling these tasks? I’m running on Windows and the MS tools keep popping up and demanding my acquiescence to their licensing agreement. Nope. Not yet anyway.
No.
Draw will open PDF files but display them as a set of graphical pages. You may notice formatting errors due mainly to font metrics and not managed PDF markup.
Don’t expect to see a standard text document. As mentioned above, PDF is interpreted as a collection of graphical objects. You no longer have paragraphs but a group of text boxes. Even lines may be split into several text boxes.
Adding, deleting and modifying text will be a nightmare.
You should try a PDF viewer. There are many of them in the free and open source domain. Most of them allow annotations (but rarely modifications).
Either request from the senders a modifiable format, e.g. .odt (even Word can produce that, though in its own voluntarily non-standard way), or use an OCR utility to turn PDF text into a plain text file.
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Thank you very much.
I’ll look for a reader.
I’m currently trying to make some quick corrections to a poorly formatted and organized pdf file. I thought it would be easier than trying to get the authors to make the corrections.
Thanks again!
Plenty of online OCR converters available where you send the .pdf and receive text format of your own choice back. That’s in almost all cases the easiest and fastest way.
Most pdf readers will let you copy text out of them, then you paste them into another editor.