I have LO version 7.1; I want to delete handwritten data from an originally printed estimate form (it was filled out when sent to me), some which is near to or crosses the printed separation lines. The .pdf opens in Draw but when I try to use the Redaction tool and either the Rectangular selection box or Freeform tool, the document area seems to be pre-divided into small blocks I can select, rather than allowing me to put the lines anywhere I want, as in MS Paint. The necessary blocks cover the printed lines or don’t cover the data to be deleted.
Is there another way to delete this data, would a later version work better, or must I just print, whiteout the data, and rescan the document for it to look good?
It will be an image by default. You can not fill-in the rectangle parts of an image in a “pdf editor” (pdf reader).
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Please upload a sample file here.
If you want to cover up marks on the scanned image then the redaction tool is not what you want. It is to cover text that you don’t want others to read with black rectangles, then the whole document is converted to an image so nobody can read what is hidden by the layers.
It sounds as if the pdf is simply a scan of some paper, so it is an image inside a pdf wrapper. If you open it in Draw, you could right-click the image and select Edit with external tool. If you have the Gimp or other bitmap editor as default to open bitmaps then you can use that. Find the brush tool and paint over the marks, close and save when asked.
Best to work on a copy in case of mistakes.
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If I do that, it opens in in Photo Viewer, but almost none of the main lines and none of the printed text shows. Thanks anyway.
I think printing and rescanning is easier and less trouble.
And for Ziz, no I don’t have a suitable sample I want to post.
Photo Viewer is an uninspiring piece of software. You could instead copy the image to a proper graphics editor and work on it there. Delete the original image and paste the repaired image back at the end, move it down the layers, if there are any, to the bottom layer.
I don’t have, or otherwise need such an editor. I rarely need to work with .pdf’s so I’ll take the easy way out. Sometimes the old-fashioned, simple way is better.
Thanks anyway
I see no problem in 7.5 - the rectangle covers any area I decide, and doesn’t limit me to the existing lines of text.
Perhaps Snap to Grid is on. See menu View - Snap Guides.
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