Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Draw

Thank you Harvey, Stuart, and Bruce for useful information and suggestions.
I am a long time user of OO.org & LO, from the time of Star Office 
before Sun. I am not a "power user" though I am a long time user.
I will investigate the pdf packages suggested.
With warmest regard
David

On 6/6/2016 3:07 PM, Harvey Nimmo wrote:
> I find Master pdf Editor to be a useful tool. It is free form non
> -commercial use. It can be a wee bit slow on my Linux openSUSE Leap
> 42.1 but has many features that you may have seen in Adobe Pro, and is
> also available for Windows. See
> https://code-industry.net/masterpdfeditor.
> Cheers
> Harvey
> On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 11:49 -0700, V Stuart Foote wrote:
> > DavidBTeagueAt Comporium.net wrote
> > > In my search  for a cross platform (Linux/Windows) and preferably
> > > GPL/free pdf reader.  I found that Draw does very well.
> > >
> > > 1) I would like an easy/easier way to move page to page in Draw.
> > >
> > > 2) Is there a way to do this?
> > Draw is a component of the full LibreOffice suite, and  is not
> > intended to
> > be installed individually--although some Linux distros attempt to do
> > that.
> >
> > Draw is not a PDF editor or reader. It will perform a filter driven
> > import
> > of PDF as pages in a ODF Draw document converting content of the PDF
> > to Draw
> > objects.  Some PDF features implemented by Adobe are simply not
> > implemented.
> >
> > On export from Draw, or Writer or Impress or Math--filters are again
> > used to
> > render the content back into PDF--mostly compliant with PDF 1.5 spec
> > with
> > some additional options.
> >
> > Once imported into LibreOffice (default is Draw, but filter import to
> > Writer
> > and Impress is also supported),  focus in the "Pages" frame allows
> > movment
> > between pages with PgDn and PgUp keys.
> >
> > YMMV -- and please  accept this is the way LibreOffice (ApacheOpen
> > Office
> > and OpenOffice before) interact with PDF.
> >
> > So if you can live with that, enjoy!
> >
> > Stuart
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Draw-tp4185414p4185423.html
> > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.



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