https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165396

--- Comment #11 from V Stuart Foote <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #10)

> 
> > LibreOffice is not a PDF editor
> 
> I do believe that discussion is settled:
> 
> * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98yX0JRHFbQ
> *
> https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2023/talk/
> JDSEVU/
> 
> plus, a "PDF editor" as you would define it could not even have this bug,
> but the only thing it would do is stick to the exact structure of the PDF.

Only in your mind, but not for any active developer nor in the majority of
users. Most know better. 

Calling it such, or LibreOffice treating PDF as an editable format just raises
unreasonable user expectations--and disappointment them with the marginal
results. 

More desirable for the majority of users and supporting reasonable workflows
with PDF would be to implement improvements in page handling (bug 114234), and
PDF text object stream aggregation and transformation into Paragraph objects
(bug 32249).

There really is no advantage to import filter transformation from PDF with
pixel perfect placement of draw object text runs without lexical context. The
pdfium insert filters already excel at that. 

PDF is a publication/presentation format not an editable document--there is no
such thing as a PDF editor, as PDF are not editable.

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