I am using Libre Office version 5.3.7.2 (x64)
How to create a pdf file while in Libre Writer?
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Open the PDFs working on LO’s surface (File menu > open) ore other adequate proceeding. Draw starts and you can hope (!) that the PDF’s format is readable and editable. Sometimes the layout will be disturbed. The better choice is Adobe Writer, but this is not for free.
Yes. Draw opens the file but the layout/format is disturbed.
You can create PDF files using the File Menu → Save as then choose PDF.
To edit PDF files you have to use LibreOffice Draw. Simply open the PDF file from Draw file menu and you can edit it.
Detailed guide is available here:
Well it is not really that simple. LibreOffice does not “edit” a source PDF. It will filter import it, either as single page image (currently defaulting to the first page of a multi-page PDF, requiring you to split the PDF externally) or by filter will split out the objects and text runs of the PDF presentation and place those discrete Draw objects with some level of fidelity to the original PDF. That can be into the Draw module by default–or into Writer, or Impress by selecting the appropriate import filter. Here is the rub–at that point you are no longer working with the original PDF–it is by the side as a locked file. You are editing a new ODF document. When you finish editing that ODF document you can save it, or you can filter Export it to a new PDF. Point is the content of the original PDF has been filtered on import to LO, and then again on export and you are asking for heartache to think of LO’s handling as “editing” a PDF. PDF are not structured to be editable! .
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This has got to be the worst program i have seen for editing my docs…every doc i try to open i cannot edit,it has a transparent box with an anchor and the only thing i can do is move the transparent box…no editing…is there another program that i can use on linux mint 22.2 to edit my docs like MS word…???
@Jaxgmfb1 your comment is off topic in this old post about editing pdf files.
Please open a new question. It is helpful to include a small sample file demonstrating the problem that you are facing. Don’t include any sensitive information, you can use find and replace to replace words with x’s
this post is about editing pdf files…how is that off topic sir… I’m just trying to get help with this program
But LibreOffice is not for PDF editing. So “This non-PDF-editor has got to be the worst program i have seen for editing my PDF docs” would still be kind of off-topic 
As already hinted by @vsfoote above:
LibreOffice does not “edit” a source PDF.
Do you mean pdf, not doc as you wrote?
Draw is not a PDF editor, it is a graphics program that can open the pdf layout and make changes.
It sounds as if the pdfs are simple scanned images. For that you need an OCR program to convert the image to text. Windows has it built in, but it might be easier to access it with Microsoft Power Tools. Better OCR tools exist, if you have a printer with a scanner you might have installed an OCR program along with the driver otherwise you may search for OCR
Thank you for the reply… never heard of OCR. .all of my printer files are uploading like pictures and I’m unable to edit in librewriter…i will go see how that works…thank you…!! I’m trying to stay far away from windows… !!!
after the OCR the doc doesn’t come out formatted the same…??
The OCR softwares ( OCR = Optical Character Recognition ) can not recognise all of the formatting properties perfectly (indents, Page styles, properties of the characters and paragraphs, etc…). You must reformat (re-style) the OCR-ed texts in the Writer application.
I have used many OCR programs including expensive paid ones, many will do an adequate job of placing text on a separate layer in roughly the right place to create a searchable pdf; none will recreate the originating document.
I always have to import the text only and recreate the document by applying styling. I usually apply my own styles to create a different layout.
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