https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150076

--- Comment #3 from Callegar <[email protected]> ---
If you use `insert → image` from the menu, and you insert the PDF image in the
page rather than as the background of the page, then the PDF export works
properly maintaining the vector nature of the image. Hence, the behavior for
the background image is at best not consistent and from a user point of view it
is really quite confusing why `Page → Set image as background` should use
pdfium in a different way from `insert → image`.

Furthermore, if you insert an SVG image as the background, then the PDF export
also works properly. So again there is an inconsistency in how LibO treats two
different vector formats.

Because SVG support is in some cases better than PDF support (maybe in part due
to the pdfium migration, that brought much more faithful conversion of PDF
files to bitmaps but otherwise weakened the treatment of PDF files as a vector
format) I would like to take the occasion to suggest readers who may stumble in
this same issue or in other issues with PDF import to consider conversion to
SVG before the import (there are many fine open source tools for that, from
`dvisvgm` to `inkscape`).

Is there a [META] bug for PDF image management? I see 113122. Would that be
appropriate as a tracking bug for this?

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