Re: [libreoffice-users] Finding hidden Draw objects

Hi Dave,

dave boland schrieb:
> All,
>
> I did a drawing using Draw, then exported to PDF.  The PDF had some
> extraneous objects in it, so I was trying to figure out where they came
> from.  The first step is to see if there are any objects that are hidden
> (behind something else, or a color the same as the background, etc.) in
> the source drawing.  How do I do that?  Select All doesn't seem to help.

You can use the tab key to traverse all drawing objects, hidden or not. 
They will become active with green handles one by one. But make sure all 
layers are visible. If a layer is not visible, you cannot access its 
objects.

If they are invisible because they are transparent, then select all 
should work. You can make a copy of the file, select all and assign an 
alarming background  and line color. If you get some "new" objects, you 
knew where to search in your original file.

You can use the Navigator. It has an icon to make it show objects too, 
which are not named. If you name all your real drawing objects, then the 
other faulty objects will be listed as "Shape" with a number. 
Unfortunately you cannot select them in the Navigator. But you can see, 
whether such objects exist. If you work with an editor directly on the 
file, then you can identify them, because they have no draw:name attribute.

Custom shapes produce currently two additonal zero size points in PDF 
export (bug report exists). If your problem has its reason in that bug, 
you should export to PDF in Apache OpenOffice and look whether you get 
better results.

Kind regards
Regina




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