I am a novice but I try…I wish to export odt in writer to pdf, but when I do the pdf is in Libre Draw and comes out weird. Margins and columns are jagged, images over-run each other and words bleed into adjoining columns. How can I export and keep it in Office Writer or how do I eliminate the LD issues? Thanks
Do not use Draw as a pdf reader, it isn’t one. Install Adobe Reader, or another pdf reader, to view the pdf.
You can create a hybrid pdf which embeds the Writer document in the pdf. You can open it in a pdf reader, or you can open it from Writer.
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The main point: There is a reason, why this is called export. So it is not intended to continue editing the pdf.
Compare it to printing on paper. Then your question would be: “How can Writer continue to edit on paper?”
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The usual way to work: You save your work as .odt and export as .pdf. For changes you open the odt in Writer and ( as before ) save as odt and export to pdf (like a new print).
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Actually the origins of pdf was ensuring a document can be printed everywhere identical. It was not thought as a general purpose file format.
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As time goes by there came the idea to have the source-document appended to the pdf, so both is available at the same place: The hybrid pdf already mentioned above.
But also choose a pdf-viewer to show the pdf. LibreOffice is no good choice for this. (Imho the pdf-reader should show the appended file with an option to open it. Not all will do this. You may even find situations, where embedded files raise security alerts…
LibreOffice is one of few programs, able to import the graphic information and therefore opens the pdf in Draw. Avoid this be setting another software (okular, evince, adobe reader…, Sumatra pdf) as default reader.
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There are possibilities to import from pdf also, but this is a complex topic. Avoid this, if possible.
Is anTypo!
Thanks. I corrected this.
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Writer can also open .pdf files.