I just downloaded the latest version of LibreOffice and was surprised but delighted to see that my previous problems copying and pasting non-text (photos, drawings, graphs, etc.) had disappeared–almost. One problem remained: I was copying three pages from a PDF, and only one of the three pages (the last one highlighted) appeared in LibreWriter. So I had to do three separate copyings and pastings. Is there any way to avoid this?
This could be due to a variety of things, include the nature of the PDF. Please provide an example PDF for others to test. Also indicate your platform.
Further investigation revealed I was quite premature in my conclusion that the latest version of LibreOffice solved all my problems–except one—in copying and pasting non-text material. The new version of LO certainly dramatically improved the situation–now I can copy/paste photos and graphics on web pages, for example. And with certain PDFs I’m able to copy/paste into LO, although only a page at a time. But for the vast majority of PDFs I’m not able to copy/paste ANY non-text material. It’s as though it doesn’t exist. What’s interesting and puzzling is that, for no obvious reason, there are, as I said, a few PDFs where I am able to copy/paste to LO.
So instead of being concerned that those just-mentioned PDFs only permit page-at-a-time copying/pasting, I’m now preoccupied with my inability to do ANY copying and pasting from the vast majority of PDFs.
Check the PDF spec version. If it is greater than v1.4 this may be the cause. PDFs vary a great deal according to how they are generated.