Having put a single $ character into the Search line, and a single space into the Replace line, I can use FindNext and Replace (depending!) for a quick scan and for fixing controlled by conscious decisions. I prefer to Paste the pdf content into my Writer document either in full or as unformatted text, and then to scan it using Find & Replace: However, the automatism is crude, and a conscious revision of the results is indispensable. The ratio (default 50%) shown in bold is editable after a doubleclick. If bad authorship or generating software spoiled the content, you can do as described for content pasted from a pdf.Ĭode: Select all Tools(also in AOO)>Autocorrect Options>Optionsis enabled. If the source was well htmelled by the author or the generating software, there shouldn't be serious problems since html is knowing automatic wrapping (nothing inserted), hard linebreaks ( tag) and paragraph entities as OpenOffice does and handles it in a very similar way. If I want to insert something else in place of the space -a hard linebreak e.g.- I intermit the scan for direct editing and resume it instantly then.Ĭopying from a html-based source (web-page) it's quite different. Having put a single $ character into the Search line, and a single space into the Replace line, I can use FindNext and Replace (depending!) for a quick scan and a fix controled by conscious decision. I prefer to Paste the pdf content into my Writer document either full or unformatted text, and then to scan it using F&R: ![]() (It may be different if the pdf was created by a dedicated software for pdf editing. Since you neither know how the primary source had created and handled the different line breaks before exporting content to a pdf-file nor with what software the pdf was created, you won't get beyond that. If there is a text at all (not just an image showing text), every visual line is handled as a distinct object and will -copied and pasted into a Writer document- be represented as a paragraph. I don't know any specifications for pdf, but from my experience I can tell you that it seems to never distinguish the mentioned three kinds of line switching. The one relevant problem is to know what to fix.
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