Sorry for my bad english, I am from Germany.
I use OpenOffice in the 3.1.1 version on my Windows Vista system,
and I want to install the sun-pdfimport.oxt , too.
I think, I did it right:
click the "download"-button,
open an application (I opened the Writer),
and saved the extension in a file.
Doubleclick on the file and the Extension Manager opened.
I scrolled down the licence, that the "accept" button appeared.
And then:
A little window with a white cross in a red circle appeared
and sayed: InvalidValueException

What's wrong?
Please help me.
Thanks a lot,
blueshark-diver

First of all, this is GREAT! There is of course still room for improvement, but this has been a long-awaited feature. Congratulations.

It seems that currently only the first page of a multipage PDF document is inserted. Is it planned to be improved in the future?

Thanks a lot

Anyone getting windows installation errors like TonyV17, probably downloaded the file named sun-pdfimport.zip. Rename the file to sun-pdfimport.oxt and follow instructions krishnanathv gave. Cheers!

In Windows

1. Download the extension
2. Open any open office application like OpenOffice.org Calc
3. Click on Tools in the Top menu and select Extensions Manager
4. In the opened dialog, click on Add... button
5. Select the file which was downloaded in the first step
6. Scroll down the EULA content so that the Accept button is enabled
7. Click Accept
8. Open any PDF document with OpenOffice application like Calc. Right click on PDF document, click on OpenWith. Select any open office application.

Krishnanath

I would run my entire company using Oen Office as a basis - if it wasn' for the fact that the developers tend to think that everybody else knows what they are talking about.

This is what I want to do. I have downloaded the PDF extention and I want to use it. What do I do?

Give it me in steps from download to installation - treat me as stupid.

Vince

I have tried to install Pdf-Import, it will just not go in. It calls on at least three occasions that something is missing, but it just looks gibberish to me. Using Ooo 3.1.1. Build 9420.
I noticed that the files it asked for were :- MSVCN90.dll along with the other two very similar files. The end comment of the was "cannot get symbol:component_getImplementationEnvironment-nor". Have no idea what it is talking about! Can someone point me the right direction to get it installed and operable? Win XP SP3.

Thanks

TonyV17

I have some problems with rendering timetables with this extension. There is no text in tables. I can't find any bugzilla for this project, so I add this information here.
I added 2 screens to compare.
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I enjoy working with this really useful extension, for which my thanks to its producers.
But I am now having a problem with v. 1.0 and OOo 3.1.1:
In Ubuntu 9.04 and OOo 3.1.1, I can import and read some .pdf files using version 0.4 of the extension, while this is not possible with version 1.0. (I have thus reinstalled v. 0.4). Is this a problem caused by some incompatibility between OOo 3.1.1 and v. 1.0 ?

Few workarounds needed to install this extension on openSUSE 11.0 (may be useful for other distributions).
It works for OpenOffice3 from OpenOffice_org opensuse repository.

1) Install libstlport from OpenOffice_org repository (I see full name as libstlport_gcc4)
2) Create file /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ooo3.conf with following line of text (root privileges needed)
/usr/lib/ooo3/ure/lib/

3) Run ldconfig as root (sudo /sbin/ldconfig)
4) Install "Sun PDF Import Extension" as usual.

PCBSD is really coming into its own and will be getting more popular.

Pity that OO extensions aren't all platform independent (Java?), but would love to see the PDF importer available for FreeBSD. If it's available for Linux, it should be easy to compile in BSD.

Tnx, Jeff

I've been waiting a thousand years for something like this - fantastic! Once this is cleaned up a bit, I will be using it every day - I'll get around to explaining why and how when I've got more time.

Problems up to now:
1. Very slow to load with big files. Unelegantly but a lot quicker, I can get around this problem by splitting the big file into 1-page files with PDFTK Builder, for example, working on the pages that I want to modify, and then rebuilding the file, again with PDFTK Builder.
2. It takes the orientation (landscape or portrait) of the last page in the file as the orientation for the whole file on loading; when I change the orientation of one page, it changes all other pages in the file to conform to this change.
3. Justified text became unjustified with one file.
4. Tables with boxes: With one document, the boxes structure of the table was perfectly rendered, but the contents of most, but not all, of the boxes were shunted over to the left of the page as if the boxes were not there. But with several other files the reverse happened - the contents were perfectly rendered, but the lines of the boxes were all over the page in an apparently random way. (Yeah, I know, it's not truly random ... at least, I hope not!)

Hi,

I am using OpenOffice 3.1 on ubuntu hardy from here: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu hardy main
I get the error below trying to install the extension:

(com.sun.star.RuntimeException){ { Message = "unsatisfied query for interface of type com.sun.start.script.XLibraryContainer!", Context = (com.sun.star.uno.Xinterface) @0 } }

Thanks

Murray

On Mandriva 10, the extension install windows pops up a Dialog Window for reading the licesnse agreement and then getting to an Accept button to push but, there is no scroll bar to use on this window!!!! PageUp, PageDown, up or down arrows also do not scroll this window. There is no way to get to the Accept button at all!!! Pressing the Close button closes this window and the install is cancelled. Advanced->Windows behavior has no feature for turning scroll bars either. I need another way to install this Sun pdf import extension for Open office!

I must be doing something wrong, but I am running 3.01 and have installed the PDF Import Extension. When I go to open a PDF (which I can confirm is based on Acrobat 1.3), both Writer and Impress coming up with ASCII filter and then regardless of which options I choose, I get gibberish presented back.

Please advise.

PDF import fails to install with an error "loading component library failed" and identifying pdfimport.uno.dll as the failed library. I'm using OxygenOffice on a Windows XP laptop.

Hi all,

I'm trying to import a pdf file into OO Impress but instead it is always loaded into OO Draw. Is it Impress import feature enabled under this version? I have tried it with both Windows XP and Linux Ubuntu 8.04 but the same result applies.

Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks for all your time,

Hector

Hi,
If I export a pdf from draw and restrict permissions (enter password and select changes not permitted), when I try to open the exported file in draw I am unable to view it (just says it is an encrypted file). Is it possible to re-enable change permissions by entering the password ? I don't seem to be able to find this option ?

Regards,
Mike.

Hello,

I tried opening a document in Draw and the layout was fine, however the Chinese characters (simplified) were not present. It may have to do with my system fonts, but would there not be a default to fall back on if the font is not included in the PDF?

Any ideas ?

Otherwise this is a great tool!

Thanks

I also get reversed images when scanning in PDFs. I am scanning from a canon copier. I usually use NitroPDF and have never had this problem. Using the newest version of this extension, when i open the pdf, the color is reversed. White paper and black text becomes black paper and white text.
Is there anyway around this?
Is there a forum on this extension? or way to contact the makers?

Thanks.