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OpenOffice.org: Sun PDF Import Extension

By Bruce Byfield

“The Sun PDF Import Extension is one of the most popular
OpenOffice.org extensions ever created. For the last two years, it
has been near the top of the list of most popular downloads on the
OpenOffice.org Extensions site — and no wonder, considering that
it is a free replacement for Adobe Acrobat, which is currently
priced at $449US. However, the extension does have some quirks and
limitations that you have to learn to work around.

“The first quirk you have to overcome is obtaining it. To start
with, you need to be running OpenOffice.org 3.0 or higher.

“That is probably not a problem for most users, but finding a
usable copy of the extension may be. When you click the Get it!
button on the extensions site, the link takes you to a page about
Oracle Open Office, the successor to Sun Microsystems’s Star
Office. This page mentions the PDF Import Extension, but provides
no downloads.”


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