It is used for calls made to known, defined processes. It's usually used for external data input or printing data to a display. It indicates the process of reading or writing. It is used to show any kind of conditional operation that divides our flow path into two.

It represents an operation that changes system data. Granted I can not use this tool with more complex documents, but for more simple PDF files this tool is magic.There are different types of building blocks representing different elements in a flowchart: Process Block Some times I get requests to alter PDF documents and now, thanks to Sun and OpenOffice, I can take care of those requests. If you want to save the document in one of the supported OpenOffice Draw formats you can use Save As. When you go to save your document, if you want to save the document as a PDF you have to use the Export to PDF and not Save As. You can convert embedded images into different types of objects (Polygons, Contour, 3D, 3D Rotation File, or Metafile). If you right click an image you will see a menu that includes entries for various arrangments of the image, cropping, and converting. To edit a text element you simply double click the element to make your edits. In this image you can see a text element ready for editing.

With your document opened in this application you will be able to edit the various elements of the document.įigure 2 shows a PDF document (that was actually exported from a presentation document) opened in Draw (with the help of the Sun PDF Import Extension). When you open up a PDF document OpenOffice will open the document in OpenOffice Draw.

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