I tried to use OpenOffice-writer (command oowriter) but it does not open 
pdf file. Also I searched KOffice's KWord in Yumex and it does not exist.

  Regards, Rachid Ayad.

On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Billy Crook wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 05:23, Zeth <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> I have some vague memory that KOffice's KWord can open PDF's (i.e.
>> extract the information and rerender it as an editable document). But
>> I have no evidence since I am a GNOME user.
>
> I'm a Gnome user as well.  It in no way impacts my ability to install
> and use other programs.  Even ones whos name starts with a k.
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 16:00, GNU BASH <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> [bcrook@One ~]$ sudo yum install koffice-suite
>> ...
>> Complete!
>
> I just 'opened' a PDF in KWord, and KWord appears to import it into a
> new KWord doc.  I'm not a fan of KWord, and it makes a mess out of the
> document during the import, but it does work, and perhaps a little
> better than just copying and pasting from evince.  It makes a mess out
> of whitespace and tables, but it works better than I thought it would.
> That was all on Fedora Rawhide though.  I checked on a SL 4.7
> machine, and it didn't have koffice in the repos.  I didn't see it in
> Centos 5.2's either, although I'm sure someone's made a package of it
> for both, somewhere on the net.
>