El Mar 25 Ene 2005 15:09, Bruce Marshall escribió:

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 02:31 pm, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:

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Where can I find the list of new features in 2.0? I'm especially interested to see if 2.0 will import .pdf files into the word processor or spreadsheet applications.

Seems as if it was about OOo 2.0, and the roadmap info can be found at http://development.openoffice.org/releases/index.html. Regards, -- Andreas Philipp Noema Ltda. Bogotá, D.C. - Colombia http://www.noemasol.com

On Wednesday 26 January 2005 01:27, Fergus Wilde wrote:

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 19:31, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:

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Where can I find the list of new features in 2.0? I'm especially interested to see if 2.0 will import .pdf files into the word processor or spreadsheet applications.

Isn't it an essential part of the pdf idea that you can't easily do that? Does even Acrobat do that? Be interested to know if it does ... Cheers

Yes, Fergus, Adobe Acrobat most certainly can edit PDFs. The PDF spec is published openly, so there's nothing preventing an open-source counterpart to Acrobat. PDFs are not an opaque format. Generic, unrestricted PostScript is much harder to deal with, since it's a programming language (based on FORTH, originally) in which new procedures can be defined and the full computational power of a Turing Machine is available. PDF is vastly more restricted and uses a fixed set of rendering and encoding primitives. It is also much more compact, which led to the term "distilling" for the process of converting PostScript to PDF.

Fergus

Randall Schulz

On Wednesday 26 January 2005 07:57, Fergus Wilde wrote:

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PDFs are not an opaque format. Generic, unrestricted PostScript is much harder to deal with, since it's a programming language (based on FORTH, originally) in which new procedures can be defined and the full computational power of a Turing Machine is available. PDF is vastly more restricted and uses a fixed set of rendering and encoding primitives. It is also much more compact, which led to the term "distilling" for the process of converting PostScript to PDF.

Ah, right! Thanks Randall. Never actually been able to afford Acrobat - let's see if the OOo people do include that enhancement

Yes, but going back to my original post in this thread, there's no mention of it in the 2.0 "Guide to New Features" (http://marketing.openoffice.org/2.0/featureguide.html) page. It seems like a sufficiently big deal to get mentioned there if it were indeed a part of this upcoming release.

Cheers Fergus

Randall Schulz

Fergus Wilde wrote:

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 19:31, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:

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Where can I find the list of new features in 2.0? I'm especially interested to see if 2.0 will import .pdf files into the word processor or spreadsheet applications.

Isn't it an essential part of the pdf idea that you can't easily do that? Does even Acrobat do that? Be interested to know if it does ...

KWord does.

* Ben Higginbottom [01-26-05 05:07]:

On 25/01/05 10:06 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Dennis J. Tuchler [01-25-05 15:31]:

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Where can I find the list of new features in 2.0? I'm especially interested to see if 2.0 will import .pdf files into the word processor or spreadsheet applications.

google

Isnt the 2.0 of Google the one that indexes the vector and velocity of every atom in the universe? :-)

It's either google or the new man pages <grin>. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos