How to insert a PDF into a Word Doc?

Hi all -

I am struggling with the following in Open Office and hope you might be able to help.

I have a word document which requires the inclusion of a separate PDF document as an annex.

Both documents open properly on their own, but when I go to Insert / File and then select my PDF, I get a corrupted PDF document.

Any ideas on how I can just bring it in natively and in the right position?

Chris

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Originally Posted by blueghoti

Hi all -

I am struggling with the following in Open Office and hope you might be able to help.

I have a word document which requires the inclusion of a separate PDF document as an annex.

Both documents open properly on their own, but when I go to Insert / File and then select my PDF, I get a corrupted PDF document.

Any ideas on how I can just bring it in natively and in the right position?

Chris

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You could copy the entire PDF document (i.e., use Ctrl-A to select the whole, and next, use Ctrl-C to copy it). Then, with your cursor at the desired insert point, use Shift-Ctrl-V to paste the contents of the PDF into the Open Office document as unformatted text. You'll have to do some minor cleaning up, but doing so should be easy and quick.

Hi - that's a good idea, thanks. Didn't work however - I neglected to mention there are a lot of tables which didn't copy over properly...

Any other thoughts?

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Originally Posted by blueghoti

Hi - that's a good idea, thanks. Didn't work however - I neglected to mention there are a lot of tables which didn't copy over properly...

Any other thoughts?

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you could install openoffice.org-pdfimport from the repos and then open and edit pdf file in openoffice draw. so the procedure to import a table from a pdf to writer with formatting would be;
1.open pdf with openoffice draw
2.select/copy what you want
3. past it in the document file

good luck

/(maybe its not the simplest way....)

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Originally Posted by ~Plue

you could install openoffice.org-pdfimport from the repos and then open and edit pdf file in openoffice draw. so the procedure to import a table from a pdf to writer with formatting would be;
1.open pdf with openoffice draw
2.select/copy what you want
3. past it in the document file

good luck

/(maybe its not the simplest way....)

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Also available via Synaptic Package Manager is libreoffice-pdfimport
I just experimented with installing this (in LibreOffice 3.3.2), and then opening a PDF file in LibreOffice Writer. LO Writer opened the PDF without difficulty and printed it out correctly.
(Seemed pretty simple to me.:))
Thanks, ~Plue.

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Originally Posted by rewyllys

I just experimented with installing this (in LibreOffice 3.3.2), and then opening a PDF file in LibreOffice Writer. LO Writer opened the PDF without difficulty and printed it out correctly.

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odd.. mine opens with draw even if i explicitly open it with writer (same version as yours)

Good tips, guys. A bit of formatting / tweaking needed but helpful!

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by ~Plue

odd.. mine opens with draw even if i explicitly open it with writer (same version as yours)

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I agree that that is odd.:confused:

Only way to include a single PDF page in another document as VECTOR, is to do this in Scribus:

- Creating your own document in Scribus
- inserting a new imagebox
- importing the single pdf page
- set *adjust frame to image"

Well, as to convert PDF to Word, it will be easy to do with a pdf convertion tool like Advanced PDF Converter which allows you to convert pdf to word,excel,ppt.what's more, it can also convert word to pdf files with ease.