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

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

--- Comment #24 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz at technion.ac.il> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #23)
> I will state again and quite clearly--LibreOffice is _NOT_ a PDF editor!
> 
> We can read it as a source document, opening into Writer, Impress, Calc, or
> Draw. We can filter export to PDF from any document--but that would
> overwrite/replace any source PDF, and only as os/DE allows.

If LO can filter in a PDF, perform editing actions on it, and filter it out to
a file, then it's effectively a PDF editor. If people use LO to edit PDFs then
it's effectively a PDF editor. IIANM, inkscape probably does the same thing,
i.e. it doesn't work on PDF object streams. I agree that it's not a proper
editor, but you shouldn't deny an important use of LO Draw. I don't have
statistics, but many people use it for this purpose. People on the RTL QA team
rated this the most prominent outstanding LO RTL bug for a reason...

But actually, that is not relevant to this bug in the narrow sense. That is to
say, even if people only ever save LO draw files and just open PDFs, it's the
same bug. About the rest of your comment - I understand. Of course the pdfium
import filter is not the solution.

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