https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149216
--- Comment #4 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu> --- Yes, MS Word 2019 does a fair job structuring its PDF import. And it saves that out to functional ODF Text document .ODT if you need. At the moment, Justin Luth's work on bug 118370 to cleanup LibreOffice Text boxes and provide a means to merge a selection of multiple Text boxes into a new single Text box on the Draw canvas is a functional, if manual process--via UNO .uno:TextCombine The resulting Text Box does not resize on the Draw canvas to match margin layout of other imported PDF elements, but the resulting Text Box can be resized as needed to manually compose the Draw document. There is no corresponding command when the PDF is filter imported to Writer or to Impress. Not clear implementing the same UNO TextCombine command for TextBox in Writer is even feasible. More general handling for extracting text runs from PDF is open as bug 32249, but in sum the LibreOffice filter offerings and object framework are not suited to parsing PDF layout back into meaningful editable ODF documents with acceptable fidelity. The PDF format is a presentation format--it is not intended to be "edited". -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
