https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165363
--- Comment #4 from [email protected] --- (In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #2) > LibreOffice is not a PDF editor. > > That is we don't edit the PDF document directly, just read in its contents, > converting to ODF drawing objects. Some elements from the PDF don't convert > well with missing fidelity to the source PDF. > > Any "changes" made to the resulting ODF Draw document must then be written > back out by filter export to PDF. It can be the same named PDF as "opened" > but it will not be the original PDF with edits, the original will be > overwritten. > > Much "safer" to first save the Draw document into its native ODF Drawing > .ODG format. Then open that new document to make any edits or formatting. > Then print or export (different filters) into a new PDF document. > > Repeated round trips from PDF without taking the results through ODG will be > problem prone. Thank you! I did not know the best practices for editing PDFs in Draw and this will be useful in the future. As things stand now, for me, all PDF files cause an error -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
