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

Dear Giles

You could open your PDF in adobe first,  highlight and copy the desired 
part content, then close adobe, open in Draw and paste; it pastes as its 
own box and full size.

It works for me, hope this works for you.

John
xp pro sp3
LO 3.3.3
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On 29/06/2011 15:01, Gilles wrote:
> (I first posted through Nabble withouth having subscribed to the
> mailing-list, so this might be sent twice)
>
> Hello ,
>
> 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?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
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