Re: Text Formatting problem in copying

On Wednesday 05 October 2011 03:06, IT Support RIX wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are a support team  helping a small research team and we are
> using Ubuntu Linux.
>
> Our team is having  difficulties in using 'Open office=E2=80=99 software.
> With Open office in Linux we  could not retain the formatting(such
> as italic, bold and other special characters)  while copying from
> source text such as pdf document unlike Microsoft office.

Not surprising. PDF documents are designed as read only, for printing=20
purposes, not as a copyable media.

> We did not find any difficulties when we use Open office in
> Microsoft Windows platform.
>

Embedded fonts in one PDF file may be on one computer not another.=20
Niether OpenOffice.org nor Microsoft Office will use the fonts=20
embedded in the PDF but will rely on the current system fonts.=20
Microsoft Office on a windows computer may have trouble reading a PDF=20
file written using Linux or Apple Mac fonts.

> We would like to check, is there a way out to solve this problem?
> That is we would like to use Open office in Linux platform without
> this formatting issues. Kindly let us know.

Preferably get your files in some other format than PDF. PDF format is=20
not designed to be editable by word processors, but is a common=20
output format. Of course as you have the copyright holders permission=20
to read and edit these files you should have no trouble recieving=20
them in ODT or DOC format from them.

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Michael
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