How to insert a PDF into a Word Doc?

[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

[rewyllys]

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
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.

[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?

[~Plue]

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?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....)

[rewyllys]

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....)
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.

[~Plue]

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.

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

[blueghoti]

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

Thanks!

[rewyllys]

odd.. mine opens with draw even if i explicitly open it with writer (same version as yours)
I agree that that is odd.:confused:

[dingodog]

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"

[Nanshan]

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.

[Kanahau]

[QUOTE=rewyllys;10645498]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.

for the sake of sounding stupid, how exactly would I install libreoffice-pdfimport?
i looked on the software centre and couldnt see it, neither on the dashboard?

[Kanahau]

got it