Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Leading spaces lost copying code from pdf

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As requested, continuing from: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/2022/msg00298.html

>  From https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148025#c3
>> Pasting the selection from https://pdf-xchange.eu/ will contain the
> required blank lines *if* it is written in the pdf. LibreOffice does not
> write blank lines in the pdf.
>
> Please understand this is a two-part fix:
> 1) Tweak LibreOffice pdf to write blank lines -
> https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/blob/master/vcl/source/gdi/pdfwriter_impl.cxx
> ??
> 2) User must view pdf in software that captures pdf layout
>
> Adobe Acrobat only captures text, not layout. Maintainers of pdf viewer
> software generally consider this is all that is required but I note the
> viewers often offer features not found in Acrobat.
>
> The only reason to use a pdf editor is they must capture layout to be
> functional but they generally don't have the best interface for viewing pdf
> files. For example, LibreOffice is not the software of choice to view pdf
> files. https://pdf-xchange.eu/ has an acceptable interface.
>
> ...Ideally, a freely
> available pdf viewer can be found or tweaked to capture that selection into
> the clipboard rather than stripping leading/trailing spaces and blank lines.

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