Bug 170252 - Justified text in PDF gets messed up and is not recognized during import in Draw
Summary: Justified text in PDF gets messed up and is not recognized during import in Draw
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 49705
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Draw (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.8.4.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2026-01-06 21:07 UTC by sebick
Modified: 2026-01-06 23:17 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Attachments
Original_in_Writer (14.63 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2026-01-06 21:08 UTC, sebick
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Original_saved_as_PDF (19.25 KB, application/pdf)
2026-01-06 21:09 UTC, sebick
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Screenshot_Imported_Draw_not_justified (41.57 KB, image/gif)
2026-01-06 21:11 UTC, sebick
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Screenshot_Writer_Original_Justified (41.42 KB, image/gif)
2026-01-06 21:11 UTC, sebick
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Description sebick 2026-01-06 21:07:47 UTC
Description:
A PDF containing justified text is imported in Draw as non-justified text. Furthermore every text line is a separate textbox in Draw, ideally this would be one big textbox for all text of the original text.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write some justified text in Writer
2. Save as PDF
3. Import PDF in Draw

Actual Results:
Text is not justified in Draw.

Expected Results:
Pixel perfect representation of the PDF in Draw. 


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
Has the impact that often imported PDFs in Draw get unreadable, especially if justified text is used next to images.
Comment 1 sebick 2026-01-06 21:08:43 UTC
Created attachment 204948 [details]
Original_in_Writer
Comment 2 sebick 2026-01-06 21:09:04 UTC
Created attachment 204949 [details]
Original_saved_as_PDF
Comment 3 sebick 2026-01-06 21:11:33 UTC
Created attachment 204950 [details]
Screenshot_Imported_Draw_not_justified
Comment 4 sebick 2026-01-06 21:11:57 UTC
Created attachment 204951 [details]
Screenshot_Writer_Original_Justified
Comment 5 m_a_riosv 2026-01-06 23:04:58 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 49705 ***
Comment 6 Eyal Rozenberg 2026-01-06 23:17:20 UTC
You will note by the number of dupes of 49705 that there are quite a few people who have pointed out the need for addressing this.