PDF Extnension for Libre Office/Writer or Open Office

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#1

would you please explain how you're able to open these PDFs so.

#2

See the title barOn 31/12/14 01:56, anne-ology wrote:

       would you please explain how you're able to open these PDFs so.

From: charles meyer <reachmeplace@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 2:57 PM
Subject: [libreoffice-users] PDF Extnension for Libre Office/Writer or Open
Office
To: users@global.libreoffice.org

I've discovered, at least with my new Libre Office 4.3.5.2, that I can
open a PDF or .jpg in Writer and not have to open Draw.

No you can't! You may start in Writer, but when you open a PDF file you
should observe a switch to Draw. See the title bar to confirm.

I can also insert images (from file) into these respective documents
and then print them to a PDF, if desired, or save as .odt, MS Word,
etc.

I would be very surprised if you are able to save as anything other than
a Draw document (.odg), or Draw template. Of course you will be able to
*print* as a PDF after editing.

Happy New Year

#3

Hi Charles and all Others,

may be you are opening an originally called "hybrid PDF"?

These ones are PDF that includes original source document in the PDF "attachments" (that may be of various types... see the link below)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format#Technical_overview

In this case if your pdf opens in Writer, as you told us, it may be the pdf contains an *odt* as attachment (from which the following Writer association...).

I think you can verify if this is true by inspecting the file with some tools like Ghostscript (dump* command), pdftk, ...
and see the attachments/streams/...

Finally you can create your own "hybrid PDF" checking the box "Embed OpenDocument file"
https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Export_as_PDF

Hope this help.

Happy new year,

Carlo

p.s. I think it will be helpful if we decide to give a name to this kind of PDFs and, once more, to standardize them (Oasis-Open, for example).

ing. Carlo Strata