On 2011-06-29, Gilles wrote: > I need to select and cut a squared-section in a PDF file. > > After opening the file in Draw with the PDF format, I'm shown the whole > document as a big image, but I couldn't find if it's possible to select just > one part of the page and cut a section. FWIW, the PDF was built with "Xerox > WorkCentre 7345" and uses PDF version 1.3 > > So I used LibreOffice to save the PDF as TIFF, opened it in PaintShopPro > (7), and removed the section. > > But when I re-open the TIFF in LibreOffice so I can save it back to PDF, > it's displayed as a very tiny image (about 1/3 of the original as displayed > in PaintShopPro), even with Zoom=100%. > > Does someone know why Draw does this? > > Is there a way to do this in LibreOffice so I can avoid the PDF -> TIFF -> > PDF shuffle?
In this specific case, I guess that's a scanned document, so what you're doing is probably JPEG -> TIFF -> PDF. What about adding, in Draw, a white-filled box over the section you want to hide? -- Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
