[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 112426] Proposal for a PDF import settings dialogue

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112426

--- Comment #9 from OfficeUser <norbert.notz at gmx.de> ---
Hi guys,

thanks for your comments.

@V Stuart Foote:

>> Sure it would be useful, but where it gets added to the UI is less of an issue than how the "preview" gets generated for use in a LO document.
>> ...
>> But it would _not_ be helpful to drag a full PDF through pdfio filter just to render a preview for use in page selection.
>> ...
>> But I would defer to Miklos' sensibilities as I know he has more in mind with the ipdf (pdfium based filter) and that enhancement may provide better preview/selection of page(s) for insertion.

I agree that generating previews by "drag a full PDF through pdfio" makes no
sense  
while the intention of my proposal is to REDUCE the date that needs to be
processed by the filter.


I cannot say something about "ipdf (pdfium based filter)". It would be great if
it can be used for this purpose because especially on windows platform we
cannot expect a ghostscript installation for every user.




@ Yousuf Philips (jay)
>> I understand your suggestion, but having a dialog interrupt the opening of a file isnt something we do other formats...

I see your point. But PDF is a very complex format that can easily push
LibreOffice and the hardware to it's limits. In addition I do not expect that
there are many users that use LibreOffice as every-day PDD viewer. So I think
most users should not have any problem with such a dialog. Please also consider
that this doialog can be set to all pages by default so that the users just
need to click OK to have the old behavior of a complete import.




@Heiko:
>> There are plenty of PDF tools to merge or split files [1]. LibreOffice is not a PDF editor and this request is out of scope to me.

I don't agree. We are talking about convinience here. With your argument,
LibreOffice would also need no PDF export. But PDF export has become a very
appreciated feature of LibreOffice.

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