PDFs are misaligned in Draw

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#1

Hi, I just installed Libre Office Draw as I’m trying to move away from Adobe for reading, filling out and signing PDFs. However, when I open PDFs using LibreOffice Draw they’re misaligned, with text running off the edge of the page, shapes not lining up, etc.

I suspect this is a fonts issue as when I click on some text I see “Font Name. The current font is not available and will be substituted”. I tried installing the Univers Next Pro font suite, and then when I opened the PDF again I ended up with completely garbled text. It’s possible I installed the wrong kind of “Univers Next Pro” font, I really have no idea.

Another suggestion I found online was to install the “Test Fonts” extension for Open Office, which I did, but as far as I can tell it does nothing (it’s in my list of extensions, but I can’t see any menu for it or changes in behaviour).

Opening the files in Adobe Acrobat DC / Reader works fine. I’m using Windows 10. LibreOffice version 7.0.4.2 (x64).

I’m after a systematic solution, as this issue seems to be occurring for most PDFs. It would also be helpful to know whether LibreOffice is even intended for this purpose, or whether I’m misusing it.

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#2

LibreOffice Draw is a drawing program that can open pdfs and display images and text boxes within the pdf; it is not a pdf reader. You should use a pdf reader to read pdfs or to fill in pdf forms.

On the other hand, LibreOffice pdf export abilities are excellent with good control over image size and compression, bookmarks and other live links and different versions of pdf. Also is the possibility to have an editable pdf that can be edited by Writer.

So better than Word for export to pdf but not as advanced as Acrobat. If you are using some of the more advanced features of Acrobat you would be best advised to continue with that program. Cheers, Al

Some variable fonts have features that mean they don’t display correctly in LO, if there is a non-variable font version that should display properly.

#3

Got it, thanks.

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