OpenOffice.org extends to the PDF edition
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The office suite OpenOffice.org will soon be able to edit PDF files via an extension concocted by Sun Microsytems. First tests by both governments beta for the extension for the office suite with its version 3.0.
The next version of the free OpenOffice.org office suite is scheduled for September 2008 with a version 3.0 which will bring a lot of improvements, including the level of integration within the operating system which serves as host, OOo for being multi-platform reminder that the rest will take even more meaningful with a native support in Mac OS X (without resorting to X11).
A compatibility will be provided with documents in Open XML format used by default in Microsoft Office 2007 and beyond, extensions will add other features. This is notably the case of an extension developed by Sun Microsystems, providing features for editing PDF files.
Soon modifying PDF files with OOo
Obviously under the free, this extension allows you to import PDF documents which will open within the scope of design or presentation of OOo, preserving the formatting of course, and allowing some features for basic hour d ‘edition (provided you have the rights alteration).
Sun recommends using its extension, which is a version 0.3 of development for tasks publishing relatively modest change of dates, numbers or small portions of text. Once these changes, export can be done in a PDF file said hybrid, namely a file with parties in PDF and ODF parties. The advantage is that this type of file can be opened with the word processor of OOo for example, while a PDF reader type Adobe Reader will flout the party ODF and treat the file as a PDF conventional.
Sun promises to very quickly over editing and management of import directly into Writer. Note however that the PDF forms can not yet be imported through this extension beta, which other point of importance can not be tested with the beta 2 version of OpenOffice.org 3.0.
Download the beta 2 of OpenOffice.org 3.0
Download the extension of Sun for publishing PDF