The text on the Draw page is split into many single line paragraphs and is all but impossible to edit it satisfactorily for other than the most minor edits like changing a date. In this case, when you open the PDF with AOO (File > Open > navigate to the PDF), the PDF file is opened in Draw, not Writer. I have never found the Oracle PDF Import Extension extension to be that useful for me because it works in two ways:ġ The PDF is a 'normal PDF' - as in the vast majority of cases PDF Split and Merge (PDFsam) is an excellent utility which allows you to make changes to a PDF at the page level by splitting PDFs into individual pages, merging multiple PDFs etc. You are likely to have to do lots of cleaning up. odt/.doc/.docx file and create a new PDF. See List of PDF software.Ī (poor) workaround is to use a File Conversion site like to convert the PDF to an editable format like. You can obtain free PDF editors like PDFEscape but they all have far less function than Adobe Acrobat. I do not think there is any alternative product which comes even close to what Adobe Acrobat can do. If you want to do major edits to a PDF buy Adobe Acrobat. If you want to do minor, cosmetic edits to a PDF using OpenOffice Draw (not Writer), you can install Oracle PDF Import Extension (for OpenOffice 3.x). OpenOffice alone cannot view PDFs and viewing with the Oracle PDF Import Extension below is not as good as with a proper PDF viewer.

It is best to view PDFs with a PDF Viewer like Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader. You cannot view or edit a PDF file with AOO or LO alone.

Openoffice pdf support