Import and Edit PDF Files For Free

I couldn't believe myself at first, but it's true!! I've been searching since a very long time ago for a decent (and free) PDF editor, especially on my Linux box (but it's available for Windows and many other platforms as well) and I found this very nice plugin for Open Office that lets you very easily open and edit PDF files, they said it's not for very big changes, but I tried editing 2 random PDF files on my laptop and it worked pretty fine, here is the link:

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport

Enjoooooooooy!!

Note: This only works with Open Office 3 and above, and to install an extension just click Tools -> Extension Manager -> Add, then choose your file and I think you'll have to restart the Open Office.

Performance Tip in OpenOffice.org 2.3

I've just read about a performance enhancement tip in OpenOffice.org, tried it out, and surprisingly, I found a performance BOOST in its startup. Just open OpenOffice.org Writer, Calc or any other product and click Tools>Options>Java and remove the check from "Use a Java Runtime Environment", I don't understand what that did :S, but things are going much faster now, and that's what I care about for the moment :)