https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150076
Bug ID: 150076 Summary: PDF image used as background in draw is exported as (low resolution) image when doing a PDF export Product: LibreOffice Version: 7.3.4.2 release Hardware: All OS: Linux (All) Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: medium Component: Printing and PDF export Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org Reporter: sergio.calleg...@gmail.com Description: When a PDF image is used for the background of a draw document and the document is then exported as PDF, the background is included in the PDF document as a low resolution bitmap, rather than as a vector image. This is very much undesirable: - the possibility to cut/copy text is lost - the resolution is poor (96dpi) - the vector quality of the image is lost - in some cases the resulting PDF file gets larger than it could (this is limited by the very poor resolution of the bitmap, though) Note that using PDF images as background represents a frequently adopted workflow for filling in forms that have been made available in PDF, but not as PDF forms. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open libreoffice draw 2. Insert as the background image a PDF file 3. Export to PDF 4. Open the resulting PDF file with a viewer or use some utility such as pdfimages to export the bitmaps that are present in the PDF file Actual Results: The background image is present in the PDF file as a 96dpi bitmap Expected Results: The background image should be maintained in vector format if it is in vector format to start with. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: [Information automatically included from LibreOffice] Locale: en-US Module: StartModule [Information guessed from browser] OS: Linux (All) OS is 64bit: yes Version: 7.3.4.2 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 30(Build:2) CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.18; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb) Locale: it-IT (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US 7.3.4-2 Calc: threaded -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.