[libreoffice-users] Re: Adding .pdf Images to Document

On 11/20/2012 06:08 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Girvin R. Herr wrote:
>
> > Okay, I was incorrect.  I thought I did open a PDF in Writer.  But it must 
> > have been Draw, not Writer.  Sorry.
> > I just did some work on this problem and discovered a way to do it.  Here is 
> > what I did:
> >
> >   In Writer,
> >   Insert -> Object -> OLE Object ->
> >   In the dialog that comes up, Click on "Create from file" at the top.
> >   In the dialog that comes up, Click on "Select..." to bring up the
> >   file browser.
> >   Select the PDF file you want to insert.
> >   Click on "Open".
> >   Click on OK.
>
> Girvin,
>
>    Thank you. I think that converting .pdf to .eps will be quicker so I'll
> try that first.
...

Just be aware of some EPS issue in LO (and AOO):

1. EPS images in LO will only show the 'image preview'. The thread from
this list is worth a read:
<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg02032.html>

2. You will most likely experience serious scrolling issues in a
document with a large EPS. A simple example of this is:

<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37837>
Download and try the attachment:
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=47445>
and you'll see what I mean. Open the TOP in a terminal & set to remain
on top. Open the attachment .odt and try to scroll to the bottom of page
2 (where the EPS is embedded). You'll see a significant delay & if you
watch TOP, you'll see that soffice first calls up gs (Ghost Script) &
then convert (ImageMagick), and then finally will display the image preview.

You can imagine what viewing the document will be like with multiple EPS
images...



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