Trying to edit a PDF

[capngary]

trying to edit some music scores and cut out extra white space to reduce printout from 4 pages to 2.
In DRAW I marked a rectangle from left to right edge and about 1 inch of
vertical. I then pushed DELETE and cleared it to white space.

How do I remove the white space and move the lines below it up?

[EarnestAl]

Drag select around the remaining objects and move them up all together by drag or by arrow keys (Shift+Arrow for larger movement, Alt+Arrow for smaller)

[ajlittoz]

Your question is rather obscure because we have no context. As usual, general information is useful: OS name, LO version. I understand that your document is .pdf, but why did you tag writer?

Draw is not a PDF editor. It can marginally handle a PDF file as a collection of graphical shapes but its capabilities are rather limited and rely on stringent configuration constraints, among those the exact same fonts installed on your system as those used to create the file.

You’ll handle shapes. Whitespace does not exist in Draw. Whitespace is the empty area between shapes. Since it is empty, you can’t “delete” it. To reduce the printout, you must move individually all shapes and reposition them where you think adequate.

[capngary]

First, thank you for responding so fast.
I tagged Writer and Draw in that I don’t know which, if either can do the
editing that I am trying to do.
I tried selecting a small piece of text and was able to move it.
As for the versions: I am using Windows 10, LO version:
24.8.6.2 (x86_64)
I attached the pdf.
The score is both in music notes and “TAB”. I want to delete the TAB lines and move up the music score to save paper. FYI, TAB is 6 lines of guitar strings and the number on the line tells what fret to press. That should take the pdf from 4 pages to 2, I hope. Then it will fit on my music stand.

Cant Help Falling.pdf (142.8 KB)

[EarnestAl]

The lines for the music and tab on each page are a single item.

1. Right click on a line and select Break, click in the area surrounding the page to deselect. Each line will be detached from its neighbours but also will be separated by the vertical lines so take care.
2. Drag select around the first Tab and press Delete. The 2 vertical objects at the left will remain, delete them also. They can be copied from an altered copy of a lower one.
3. Shift click the two vertical bars of the next row.
   1. Click Format > Position and Size > Position and Size and set height to 1 cm
   2. Click the bottom “horn” and Shift+Arrow up twice, then Arrow down once to place it into correct position.
   3. select the two "horns and the two vertical lines and then click Shape > Group Shapes > Group
   4. Ctrl+Drag this bracket the beginning of the first row to copy it there.
   5. Delete the rest of the verticals when you come to them and use this one Ctrl+Drag to the beginning of each line.
4. Select around the first row and click Shape > Group Shapes > Group
5. Drag select around the next row of notes plus the brackets you just grouped.
6. Press Shift+Up Arrow 3 times Up Arrow as many times as you want.
7. Select around the row and click Shape > Group Shapes > Group
8. Select and delete the next row of Tabs
9. Repeat from 5