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<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:vstuart.foote@utsa.edu" title="V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote@utsa.edu>"> <span class="fn">V Stuart Foote</span></a>
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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112426#c4">Comment # 4</a>
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href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112426">bug 112426</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:vstuart.foote@utsa.edu" title="V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote@utsa.edu>"> <span class="fn">V Stuart Foote</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Yousuf Philips (jay) from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=112426#c2">comment #2</a>)
<span class="quote">> Seems reasonable to me, but doubt we'd do it in the file open dialog, but
> more likely in the Insert > File dialog, which already has the facility to
> select which pages that you'd want to import, but doesnt have the ability
> yet to import from pdfs.
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> @Heiko, @Cor, @Stuart: what's your take?</span >
Sure it would be useful, but where it gets added to the UI is less of an issue
than how the "preview" gets generated for use in a LO document.
As LibreOffice is _not_ a PDF editor--this filtered opening can continue to be
seen as now with import to Draw as Draw objects, except enhancing to select
either the entire document or adding an ability to select pages or even
elements from a source PDF. That would extend the pdfio filter.
Or alternatively, as done for <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed"
title="RESOLVED FIXED - Implement an import filter to insert single PDF pages into a document"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=89727">bug 89727</a>, we insert a PDF as image to a document
of any LibreOffice component--currently just the first page of a PDF document.
Enhancement would add ability to select from any page of a source PDF. That
would extend the ipdf filter.
For either usage now, selection(s) from the source PDF must be external to LO.
But it would _not_ be helpful to drag a full PDF through pdfio filter just to
render a preview for use in page selection. That makes no sense and is clearly
a WONTFIX when there are any number of external programs to do that with now.
But I would defer to Miklos' sensibilities as I know he has more in mind with
the ipdf (pdfium based filter) and that enhancement may provide better
preview/selection of page(s) for insertion.</pre>
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