https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32249
--- Comment #30 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #16) > Replacing of supplementing the PDF filters to provide "reflow" back into > paragraphs is seen as out-of-scope for the project as we are not a PDF > editor. A reflow is often not necessary. That is, the text in a contiguous paragraph without changes to the formatting is saved in a single object stream. So, what actually happens is that our import filters _artificially_ break up the text into lines. Also, LibreOffice is actually a PDF editor: It satisfies the dictionary definition [1] of an editor for PDFs, and is used by many to edit PDFs. True, it does not directly manipulate the structure of PDFs - it imports-from and exports-to PDFs - but that is also the case for OOXML documents and many other formats - and we still consider LO an editor for those. Certainly, LO may not be the ideal software platform for editing PDFs, but there's no reason it couldn't be a half-decent editor for not-very-complex PDFs. I've recently had this discussion with Stuart on bug 151552. For this reason improving the editability of imported PDFs, e.g. by importing text as completr paragraphs, is entirely within the scope of the project. [1] : https://www.dictionary.com/browse/editor -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
