[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125940] pdf text overflowing when opened in draw

[bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org]

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125940

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

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|---                         |NOTABUG
                 CC|                            |vstuart.foote at utsa.edu
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
             Blocks|                            |99746

--- Comment #2 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
Sorry but PDF format by design are not "editable".  LibreOffice is not a PDF
"editor", nor does it implement a PDF "form filler".

What you see occurring is font fallback by the import filter (pdfio)--you would
have to have exactly the font set IRS used to create that form installed
locally to your system. Font subsets held in PDF are intended to render the
document as produced--not edit it. LibreOffice "import" filter do sane thing of
passing unknown fonts for replacement. 

The other LibreOFfice PDF filter for "insert" (pdfium based ipdf) will read the
exact PDF structure and render it to document canvas as a bitmap image.
Fidelity with the menu Insert -> Image and PDF is very high (but image remains
low resolution), and the filter only parses the first page of the PDF. Both
limitations in queue for dev effort.

Selecting the inserted image and applying "Break" will render the PDF to Draw
object (Text boxes matching internal layout of the PDF not into lexically
sensible paragraphs) exposing all the original font and layout. But again
fallback font assignments are made--LibreOffice does the correct thing here as
well.

You can set a replacement font in advance for any fonts being used in the PDFs
with the Tools -> Options -> Fonts: Replacement table mechanism.


Referenced Bugs:

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