Is it possible to open a PDF file in Open Office Writer? I mean, with no prior converting with any programs. And how, if so?...
The thing is, I've downloaded the report from my plagiarism detector, and it's in a PDF format. Yes, it easily opens via Draw, but I need to edit it, so Writer would come in handy
Last edited by Lesley_Vos on Mon Dec 04, 2017 12:40 pm, edited 1 time in total.
If you created the document with a word processor, you have to load the original type of text document into a word processor (e.g. Writer or Word), edit that document and then export a new pdf. pdf is exactly the same as printing to paper just without paper and you can not edit pdf for similar reasons why you can not edit a sheet of paper. Any software that is able to export drawings or text to a printer device can also print to a pdf file.There is plenty of software to view PDF on all devices but only the costly Adobe Arobat Suite can edit PDF regardless of origin. Within your office suite, Draw is the most adequate component to edit lines, shapes and text on virtual paper sheets regardless of origin.
Professional office workers create their text documents from templates. If you can't access the original document, load the same template from where you created the lost document and paste-special text only from the PDF viewer into the template. You may need to remove page headers and footers. WIthin a few minutes you should have reconstructed the same document.
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