Re: [libreoffice-users] Draw & PDF Files

On 05/08/2014 10:10 AM, Cley Faye wrote:
> 2014-05-08 16:02 GMT+02:00 Brian A. Colucci <bacolucci@medworkohio.com>:
>
> > We are running Libre Office 4.2 under Linux Mint 14.  Draw states that it
> > is capable of opening PDF files.  This functionality is a bit sketchy.
> >   Either the document will not display at all in draw, or it displays with
> > all of the fonts, and page layouts askew.  Is this a known issue, or just
> > unique to us?
>
> ​I have yet to see a PDF that is not displayed in Draw, so that might be a
> specific issue you have.
>
> However, here's my experience with it so far: PDF in Draw have always felt
> more like a hack than anything. It doesn't seem to handle embedded fonts,
> and for fonts available on the system, the rendering is different,
> including different spacing between letters. Images and various graphics
> elements tend to get out well, but from time to time you'll come across a
> graphic that's on the wrong side of a page.
>
>
> This behavior have been relatively consistent between LO version since PDF
> opening was introduced, and to be fair the very nature of a PDF, especially
> how the format is laid out internally, makes "opening" them for edition
> quite a challenge.
> ​This tool is still useful for some use cases, tough, and I've used it some
> times, mainly to extract graphics without losing quality. But it's not a
> "PDF editor", at least not yet (obstacles can certainly be overcome, but
> that's not what I'd call a priority in an Office edition suite. my 2cts of
> course).​

YES, It may be the PDF file itself.

For me, with Linux Mint 16/MATE, Some PDF files display just like the 
PDF reader shows them.  Yet, other files have issued with the alignment.

I do not use Draw much, but every time I open a PDF file in draw, to 
make an image of the page or part of the page, it just seems that some 
PDF file work while others do not.  I even have a PDF file that views 
properly in the PDF reader but will not print out properly.  I had to 
open the PDF document in Draw to print out the needed pages.






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