Bug 168862 - Inserting a PDF into a document only inserts the first page.
Summary: Inserting a PDF into a document only inserts the first page.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 114234
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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25.8.2.2 release
Hardware: All All
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Reported: 2025-10-14 23:00 UTC by RichardNeill
Modified: 2025-10-15 12:27 UTC (History)
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Description RichardNeill 2025-10-14 23:00:14 UTC
I'm writing a long document (a legal argument) and I need to insert a 3 page PDF into it. So I used Insert->Image, and browse to the PDF file, and insert it.

Unfortunately, I only get the first page.

What should have happened is either:

1. I get prompted to pick a page number. 

2. I get offered the choice of more than one page. This is what I actually wanted.

3. I should at least get a warning that there was a multi-page source document and that only a single page was embedded.


For anyone else finding this, the easiest workaround is to use ImageMagick:
  convert in.pdf out.png
and note that IM will automatically split the document. Then insert the images manually, one by one.
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2025-10-15 12:27:00 UTC
Know issue for using the pdfium based insert PDF as image, see bug 114234

By default, inserts the first page of the PDF.

You'll need to split the PDF pages externally and insert each.

Your choice to externally convert to different raster/vector format rather than the internal pdfium based filter. But if you need the source PDF with the document, the Insert filter retains it with the ODF archive.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 114234 ***