Work on your primary source so that you won’t over and over reconvert from PDF.įor now, I have to use another program to CONVERT PDF to TEXT, then edit it in WORD,Īnd then re-export as PDF… Wish I could just edit it in Draw? PDF is only a way to transmit the file in an unchangeable format to anybody (eventually not having the fonts you used). odt and consider this file as your primary source. The third task is to reformat the text (for this step, I urge you to think about which paragraph, character and page styles are needed don’t ever start direct formatting, you’ll create new difficulties for later edits). Your second task is to merge the single-line pseudo paragraphs into real meaningful paragraphs. The simplest way to do it is to copy text in a PDF viewer and paste it into a new Writer document. So if you need to frequently edit your PDF, your first task is to recreate a text document. Recreating the text document with all its attributes is impossible. If the bounding boxes are not displayed you may have the illusion of a continuous text but this is not the case. You no longer have a continuous flow of text with formatting directives but a set of disjoint homogeneous strings (same font face, size, weight, slant, …) positioned horizontally and vertically. ![]() Sometimes you don’t see an exact representation of text because the exporter may have omitted implicit data by not embedding fonts (assuming they are universally present on every computer, which is rarely the case). Text is represented in a compact form (with strings) but it remains a graphical object.ĭraw displays all graphical objects it finds in a page. ![]() Therefore everything in it is a graphical object. As has already mentioned it, PDF is a page description language and format (loosely based on PostScript).
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