Re: how to import scanned page into Open Office and edit it

[Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com>]

At 09:18 25/02/2016 +0100, M Henri Day wrote:
>2016-02-25 1:21 GMT+01:00 Robert Carney:
>>I tried Henri's suggestion to scan the form to a PDF and edit that 
>>in Open Office. Maybe I don't know how to open a PDF file in Open 
>>Office because every time I try to open the file, Open Office 4.1.2 
>>crashes. I tried clicking on "open" and selecting the proper file 
>>and I tried clicking on text document and, either way, Open Office 
>>crashes as soon as I select the PDF file. Otherwise, it works just 
>>fine on other files, etc.
>
>Robert, I get the impression - which may be erroneous - that you 
>tried to open the pdf file in OpenOffice Writer. What happens if you 
>try to open it in OpenOffice Draw ?...

Surely it is a fallacy to suppose that you can open files "in Writer" 
or "in Draw"? These names for components merely describe the type of 
document that is being handled. And if you *open* a file in 
OpenOffice (which is all you can do - not in a specific component), 
you generally don't get a choice of how it is interpreted: text files 
are interpreted as text, spreadsheet files as spreadsheets, and so 
on. And PDFs are not interpreted at all - except perhaps 
misinterpreted as the text files that they indeed are.

Some users think that if they have a text file open they are somehow 
"in Writer" and that this will influence how further documents are 
opened. They are suffering from Microsoftitis: Word, Excel, and so on 
are indeed separate programs. But OpenOffice is an integrated application.

You can, of course *insert* various items - including a graphic of a 
PDF document - into different types of OpenOffice documents. And 
inserting an image of a PDF form into a drawing (Draw) document as a 
picture is (as I mentioned earlier) one way to deal with the enquirer's need.

Brian Barker  


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