[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 147540] Feature request: Rotate entire PDF document in Draw

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147540

V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |libreoffice-ux-advise at lists
                   |                            |.freedesktop.org,
                   |                            |vmiklos at collabora.com,
                   |                            |vstuart.foote at utsa.edu
           Severity|normal                      |enhancement
           Keywords|                            |needsUXEval
             Blocks|                            |99746

--- Comment #2 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
(In reply to Will from comment #0)
> ...
> I understand that Draw is not intended solely to be a PDF editor and the
> other PDF editing features it has are excellent.
> 
> Both Adobe and Foxit have a button at the top that will rotate the document
> or other highlighted documents 90 or 180 degrees left or right.
> 

Sorry but Draw (or one of the other LO modules that will filter import from
PDF) is NOT a PDF editor. LibreOffice is not a PDF editor--full stop.

Once a PDF has been filter imported and its content parsed to document canvas,
its content can be rotated, or reoriented. But that is a function of the Draw
(or other module) canvas handling. It no longer has ANYTHING to do with the
source PDF. Follow-on export from LO back to PDF will corrupt an original PDF
if you overwrite it and think of LO as an editor. DON'T DO IT!

Rotation / reorientation of a PDF page imported with the pdfium project libs is
trivial--but is limited to single PDF page import handling as an image.

All that said, an enhancement to module handling of PDF sourced images
(pdfium-based import) or full canvas of PDF source Draw objects (poppler-based
import) on canvas is probably feasible.

@Miklos? Worth doing, or toss it back => WF


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99746
[Bug 99746] [META] PDF import filter in Draw
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