OpenOffice and PDF

[JD]

On 04/16/2011 03:04 PM, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 6:43 PM, suvayu ali<fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 2:36 PM, JD<jd1008 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Well, it turns out there indeed is bad news.
>>> Xournal does not or cannot save the edited
>>> pdf file in pdf format. It saves it in it's own
>>> format - with .xoj  extension.
>> That is incorrect. You need to export to pdf.
> Also, xournal is not so much a PDF editor as a PDF annotator
> (additions and markups only) and it does this spectacularly well
> without adding a lot of size to the original PDF file.
>
> I use it for filling out forms in PDF format that don't have embedded
> form fields all the time.
>
> But back to the original topic ... I have found both OpenOffice and
> Inkscape PDF import to be non-reliable. It seems that there are some
> formats of PDF that make them both fail miserably. But hopefully the
> import effectiveness improves over time.
>
> /Mike
You hit the nail on the head: I only need to edit
textual content - especially in application forms.

Cheers,

JD