2014-05-08 16:02 GMT+02:00 Brian A. Colucci <[email protected]>:
> We are running Libre Office 4.2 under Linux Mint 14. Draw states that it > is capable of opening PDF files. This functionality is a bit sketchy. > Either the document will not display at all in draw, or it displays with > all of the fonts, and page layouts askew. Is this a known issue, or just > unique to us? I have yet to see a PDF that is not displayed in Draw, so that might be a specific issue you have. However, here's my experience with it so far: PDF in Draw have always felt more like a hack than anything. It doesn't seem to handle embedded fonts, and for fonts available on the system, the rendering is different, including different spacing between letters. Images and various graphics elements tend to get out well, but from time to time you'll come across a graphic that's on the wrong side of a page. This behavior have been relatively consistent between LO version since PDF opening was introduced, and to be fair the very nature of a PDF, especially how the format is laid out internally, makes "opening" them for edition quite a challenge. This tool is still useful for some use cases, tough, and I've used it some times, mainly to extract graphics without losing quality. But it's not a "PDF editor", at least not yet (obstacles can certainly be overcome, but that's not what I'd call a priority in an Office edition suite. my 2cts of course). -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
