It happens, you get emailed a pdf and you need to edit it and the original word version is with someone who is on holiday / another time zone / left the company four years ago and became a traveling salesmen in the himalayas. Um okay, perhaps not but you know the frustration.
Over at the ghacks site they’ve posted a blog entry about using a new extension by Sun on how to open adobe acrobat pdf files for editing in the free OpenOffice. Fantastic a) I love OpenOffice b) you can save as microsoft word c) I really do love OpenOffice.
So pop on over to ghacks to find out how:
http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/28/open-and-edit-pdf-files-in-openoffice/