


If the software you expect to accept this pasting actually does isn’t under the control of LibO. Nonetheless Draw offers the Crop feature for it, and you can use it the way I already described, then copy the result and paste it somewhere. If you actually inserted a pdf as an “image” into a Draw document you didn’t something generally recommended.

Why don’t you expect “Paint” to import pdf the way you want it? (I don’t know anything about “Paint”.) Who told you Draw was the appropriate tool? It isn’t. No “Paint” needed.Įverytime I used Libreoffice Draw was to open and edit pdf files and everytime I wanted to change a pdf page I had to copy-paste to MS Paint a full page to edit it. Everything composed with Draw within seconds. The example is a clipped group made of a blue rectangle, a yellow ellipse, and part of my avatar image. What you get this way you can even post in a comment on this site then. If you want to treat a group of objects this way, you should (probably with a copy) create the group, convert it to a bitmap or a metafile, crop it and (Ctrl+C) copy the result to the clipboard. Its “screen” isn’t treated as one big bitmap. The Draw component is dedicated to vector graphics, and has means to position/resize/clip … images/graphics from different sources in many formats. Software has its limits, and needs to regard them.Ī jack-of-all-trades-device would either have gravely limited features concerning each of its “trades” or be no longer to handle for non-professionals (and probably also for professionals) due to its cluttered UI. Isn’t it “absurd” that MS Paint can’t edit vector graphics? Why? Drawing and painting may not be the same. It is an absurd that a drawing program cannot select a partial area of the screen and has to rely on external programs like MS Paint to do it.
