What's the best way to convert a .pdf form to .odt

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#1

I have a .pdf form I would like to use as a mail merge form. I see there's
no way to do merge in Draw. I opened the .pdf in Draw and cut and pasted
from the .pdf to a new .odt document. This only put images in the new
document that I couldn't edit. I opened the .pdf in Reader and did the
same. It copied all the text, but the formatting was poor. Is there a
better way to do this so I don't have to retype the whole thing?

Thanks,

Paul Whitehurst
whandwh@aol.com

#2

export to docx format from Acrobat Pro and then convert from docx to odt

#3

Hi :slight_smile:
Surely just copy&"paste special" as unformatted text. Then apply
styles. Avoid trying to be too close to the original if that is
possible.

It's good if you can create an excuse so that people see your new form
as an improvement over the old one. Easy ones for LIbreOffice is that
the new form is more internally consistent, ie doesn't change fonts or
sizes so much. Maybe make it all 11point font-size "to increase
readability" (shouldn't that be "more legible"?).
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: