[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125838] New: add ability to merge textboxes and content into one: editing PDF imports

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125838

            Bug ID: 125838
           Summary: add ability to merge textboxes and content into one:
                    editing PDF imports
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: Inherited From OOo
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Draw
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: jluth at mail.com

Created attachment 152083
  --> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=152083&action=edit
Bertha-G1-TG-Sample.pdf: example pdf where many textboxes could be combined.

For working with publisher files in LibreOffice, the formatting is preserved
much better when importing a PDF rather than a .PUB file. The main drawback,
however, is that each line of a paragraph is imported as a separate text box.
This makes any editing nearly impossible.

Currently you can choose multiple boxes, then right click and choose "Shapes >
Combine" or "Shapes > Merge" but that turns them into a non-editable image /
graphic box and loses the ability to edit the text. What is requested however
is to combine the text boxes and keep it editable.

There are some OOo/AOO feature requests that ask for a button to merge multiple
text boxes:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=59551
http://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=95387

Here is a workaround from the apache bug report above that uses a macro to
combine the text boxes into one text box:
https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/178518/get-selected-text-boxes-and-combine-into-one/?answer=178571#post-id-178571

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