[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 89471] FILEOPEN pdf: When opening a PDF with RTL language text in Draw, text gets mirrored

[bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org]

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89471

--- Comment #22 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz at technion.ac.il> ---
(In reply to Khaled Hosny from comment #19)
> My own recommendation is to not try to edit PDFs in LibreOffice, PDF is not
> an editable format (despite what some tools would lead you to believe), and
> what you get is just some complex hacks. Making PDF editable in LibreOffice
> was a misguided mistake to begin with, and if it were for me I'd just
> deprecate and eventually remove support for it.

With respect - this is an irrelevant recommendation. People edit PDFs exactly
because they don't have access to the source files with which they were
generated; or because they want to be certain they begin editing in the
absolute final typeset form of a document.

PDFs are pretty editable. There are PDF editors, which work. Inkscape works.
Adobe Acrobat (the full suite) works. They may work in the somewhat handicapped
fashion I described above (not sure about the full Acrobat) - but they are
quite useful. But I want LibreOffice draw functionality for these PDFs! and
when this bug is fixed I can have it. Mostly.

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-bugs/attachments/20190618/28bdffe0/attachment.html>