https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167291
--- Comment #6 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- Heiko, the title and the opening comment, especially the first paragraph, do not make it clear enough what this bug is supposed to be about. Nor whether this is supposed to be a meta-bug or a concrete bug. If this is a meta-bug at least in part, there are already a bunch of existing issues which should block it. I'll also make two other comments: About "editing PDFs" -------------------- - I talked about this in LibOCon Bucharest 2023: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2023/talk/JDSEVU/ Slides: https://events.documentfoundation.org/media/libreoffice-conference-2023/submissions/JDSEVU/resources/LO_as_PDF_editor_sbZDN5T.pdf Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98yX0JRHFbQ in a nutshell, LibreOffice is what many people use, or try to use, to "edit PDFs", regardless of whether we want to call it a PDF editor, so the better we support editing PDFs, the more we will help users achieve their goals and the more we would be appreciated as an app. And vice versa. Two different kinds of PDF editing ---------------------------------- This bug is focused on a PDF as the baseline form of a document, with opening and saving expected to retain as much of its structure as-is, and make sure to use its built-in facilities/allowances for various kinds of contents. But - a second kind of PDF editing is when the PDF is thought of as a result of an export from a less-final, more human-editing-oriented format like ODF or OOXML. In those cases, the user has a _conflicting_ expectation, which is the reconstruction of as much as possible of what can be inferred to be the original document's structure and features which are not directly available in PDFs. Both are valid user interests; but they are conflicting in terms of how an import filter, and perhaps even an export filter, should behave in order to adhere to each of them. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
