[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 122941] I cannot copy and paste an entire multi-page pdf from LibreOffice to google docs

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122941

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

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--- Comment #1 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
Libre Office is not a PDF editor. But then neither is Google Docs (which will
parse the PDF text but not with very good fidelity, so better for Google to
open PDF for viewing).

There is no LibreOffice mechanism for imported multipage PDF to be copied and
pasted as anything but internal metafile or ODF. And presently it will only
place the first page/slide on system clipboard--although there is an effort to
produce multi page SVG.

As you seem to be attempting to edit PDF on Google Docs, what works reasonably
well (it depends on the LibreOffice PDF import filter which is good but not
quite a match for Google developed Skia based filter used to insert as a single
image) is to open the multipage PDF into LibreOffice Draw. And then to export
from Draw using the XHTML filter.

You will then be able to upload the resulting *.html document to your Google
Drive, and then open from there with Google Docs. It has reasonable fidelity to
the original PDF and can be edited as a Google Text doc.

Otherwise => NAB

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