Edit PDF files with OpenOffice.org (OOo PDF import) / Hybrid PDF-OpenDocument files

Posted by crox on Wednesday, October 29. 2008

This article discusses importing PDF files in OOo for editing with a new extension, which also brings a new feature called "hybrid PDF". Basically a regular PDF file compatible with any reader which also contains the original OpenDocument (odt, ods etc.) data. This extension requires OpenOffice.org version 3.0 and you can download it from here.

The article also mentions that Office 2007 SP2 will support ODF natively. This has been announced in May this year apparently but I missed it :o) The service pack will be available sometime in the first half of 2009.

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Until now I always recommended to use PDF as a format to distribute documents in case the recipients don't need to alter them[1]. This supposedly guaranteed that the document would always look the same on any comuter/platform. But today one of our custome

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