Bug 122941 - I cannot copy and paste an entire multi-page pdf from LibreOffice to google docs
Summary: I cannot copy and paste an entire multi-page pdf from LibreOffice to google docs
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
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6.0.7.3 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: medium normal
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Reported: 2019-01-24 22:31 UTC by Mr. Rogers
Modified: 2019-01-26 23:08 UTC (History)
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Description Mr. Rogers 2019-01-24 22:31:51 UTC
Description:
I converted a pdf in LibreOffice with no problem. When I selected all 13 pages and copied and pasted into a google drive word doc, only page 1 appeared. I did this several times, and I searched online for help. More than one response said it was a bug, which I figured. I even tried selecting all the pages from the left side pane, but when I copied and pasted, only page 1 appeared.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open a multipage pdf in officelibre
2.open the pane on the left showing all pages
3.select all and copy and paste

Actual Results:
Only the first page will paste

Expected Results:
only the first page pasted.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes



Additional Info:
All pages should have pasted.
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2019-01-26 23:08:46 UTC
Libre Office is not a PDF editor. But then neither is Google Docs (which will parse the PDF text but not with very good fidelity, so better for Google to open PDF for viewing).

There is no LibreOffice mechanism for imported multipage PDF to be copied and pasted as anything but internal metafile or ODF. And presently it will only place the first page/slide on system clipboard--although there is an effort to produce multi page SVG.

As you seem to be attempting to edit PDF on Google Docs, what works reasonably well (it depends on the LibreOffice PDF import filter which is good but not quite a match for Google developed Skia based filter used to insert as a single image) is to open the multipage PDF into LibreOffice Draw. And then to export from Draw using the XHTML filter.

You will then be able to upload the resulting *.html document to your Google Drive, and then open from there with Google Docs. It has reasonable fidelity to the original PDF and can be edited as a Google Text doc.

Otherwise => NAB