Re: [libreoffice-users] [3.4] Cutting section in PDF file?

On 2011-06-29, Gilles wrote:

> I need to select and cut a squared-section in a PDF file. 
>
> After opening the file in Draw with the PDF format, I'm shown the whole
> document as a big image, but I couldn't find if it's possible to select just
> one part of the page and cut a section.  FWIW, the PDF was built with "Xerox
> WorkCentre 7345" and uses PDF version 1.3 
>
> So I used LibreOffice to save the PDF as TIFF, opened it in PaintShopPro
> (7), and removed the section. 
>
> But when I re-open the TIFF in LibreOffice so I can save it back to PDF,
> it's displayed as a very tiny image (about 1/3 of the original as displayed
> in PaintShopPro), even with Zoom=100%. 
>
> Does someone know why Draw does this?
>
> Is there a way to do this in LibreOffice so I can avoid the PDF -> TIFF ->
> PDF shuffle? 

In this specific case, I guess that's a scanned document, so what you're
doing is probably JPEG -> TIFF -> PDF.

What about adding, in Draw, a white-filled box over the section you want
to hide?

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Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
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