[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 140005] Draw import of PDF squishes text together

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140005

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

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

--- Comment #3 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
LibreOffice is not a PDF "editor", we filter import a PDF document either as a
single image (pdfium libs) or to multiple draw objects (pdfio).

The single image insert provides high fidelity to original PDF, but renders to
fixed resolution raster of the first page of the PDF--bug 115811.

The other import filter will render the entire PDF as individual pages of a
Draw ODF document.  However, the rendering must extract the text runs of the
PDF and assign a font to them--the embedded subset fonts are not very useful as
they are subset--how would you edit the result with a partial font? Bug bug
101220 is open for that.

If you need to clean up your PDF after import--it needs a functional font. The
Ghostscript provided 'Nimbus Sans L Bold' and 'Nimbus Sans L Regular' the
wkhtmltopdf generator has used are difficult to install. Ghostscript does not
install them as TTF system fonts. When the PDF is imported the fonts appear as
uninstalled (the font name for a selected glyph is itallics)--for this document
NimbusSansL and NimbusSansLu

Meaning to clean up your imported PDF pages, you'll need to assign a
replacement font. Best if you can obtain the Nimbus Sans--but if not Helevetica
or Arial/Arial Black are not too far off.

You can use the Tools -> Options -> Fonts 'Apply replacement table'. The Fonts
replacement table can be reversed. While setting the 'Always' checkbox will use
the replacements from the table on print or export.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 101220 ***

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