PDF open source solution - test request

[Chris Watkins]

We may have a solution to our PDF porting bottleneck:

* pdfimages command in linux spits out the images in a numbered series. Working for me, & very easy.
* OpenOffice allegedly opens PDFs and saves with formatting. I tried it a year ago without success, but a year's a long time. I suspect it'll be a bloated format, but worth a try - save the doc to HTML then convert with our wikEd tool.

Could someone with OpenOffice try it out and see how it works? Here's a doc we want: Are You Ready Full Document (PDF 21MB).

(I've removed OpenOffice from my own machine to free up space, and because I never used it).

that would be much appreciated - thanks!
Chris


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[Chris Watkins]

I wrote:

Could someone with OpenOffice try it out and see how it works? Here's a doc we want: Are You Ready Full Document (PDF 21MB).

Turns out it's not a native feature - one of these links may help:

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/pdfimport
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Pdf_Import_Extension

[Chris Watkins]

Was anyone able to get this working?


btw this might also be worth a try:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdftohtml/

There's a Windows version, and a Linux version that I couldn't get to work. From playing with the demo, it might get messy if converting a multi-column PDF to a single-column format such as a wiki page, but for single-column PDF files it could be a good option.

Chris