Bug 165663 - Opening PDF converts highlights without opacity
Summary: Opening PDF converts highlights without opacity
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 93200
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: filters and storage (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.2.1.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2025-03-10 07:35 UTC by Andreas
Modified: 2025-03-10 13:04 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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PDF with highlighted Text from Acrobat Reader (19.91 KB, application/pdf)
2025-03-10 07:35 UTC, Andreas
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Description Andreas 2025-03-10 07:35:12 UTC
Description:
We are trying to convert PDF documents with highlighted words/sentences to PDF-A.
During this process the highlighting looses the opacity and the text is not readable anymore.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a PDF with highlighting in Acrobat Reader
2.Open the PDF with the Writer
3.Optional: Save it as PDF-A

Actual Results:
There is a box without any opacity above the highlighted text.

Expected Results:
Text is highlited


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
I can attach a test PDF - but its trivial to reproduce.
Comment 1 Andreas 2025-03-10 07:35:59 UTC
Created attachment 199719 [details]
PDF with highlighted Text from Acrobat Reader
Comment 2 Jessica 2025-03-10 08:35:07 UTC
Thank you for reporting the bug. I can confirm that the bug is present in

Version: 25.2.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: d3abf4aee5fd705e4a92bba33a32f40bc4e56f49
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 22631); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: en-GB
Calc: threaded

also in :

Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 894563ee0e4032019623a97c313af3d833863b1f
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 22631); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: de-DE
Calc: threaded
Comment 3 V Stuart Foote 2025-03-10 13:03:50 UTC
Seems rather an abuse of the LibreOffice provided PDF import filters.

PDF is not intended as an editable format, it is rather presentation/publication.

Wrong tool to be attempting to generate PDF-A of any version from an existing PDF.

None the less duplicate for handling the poppler delivered drawing shape for a highlighted text stream.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 93200 ***