LibreOffice crashes when I try to open a PDF

[leyvi]

Whenever I try to open a PDF file with any LO app, it crashes with the following message:

[Da51d]

Have you ever been able to open a pdf with libreoffice? Do you wish to simply read the pdf or edit it? My understanding is that libreoffice is not supposed to be a pdf viewer or editor.
https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/libreoffice-5-0-3-wont-open-pdf-files/16079
https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/opening-pdf-defaults-to-libreoffice-draw-which-shifts-elements-due-to-weird-margins/101095
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[leyvi]

Yes. In the past, opening a PDF with LO would always work. It would open with LO Draw. I did just change a config file with dispatch-conf, specifically /etc/xdg/mimeapps.list. Maybe that has something to do with it? But those are just system defaults, not my user-specific settings, so I don't really know what's going on.

[szatox]

It has a pdfimport use flag though, which allows it to edit pdf files.
LibreOffice Draw module is not a great tool for the purpose and makes editing quite a painful process, but it _can_ do that.

Or at least it could, because it currently throws a "general input/output error" on my machine, whatever it means, and without any debug information. Weird.
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[Da51d]

Sorry, I did not know about the pdfimport flag. That's probably why it never worked for me. I will re-emerge with that and try it out. Thanks for the useful tip.
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[leyvi]

Glad to see I'm not the only one with this issue.

[sam_]

[dmpogo]

I have libreoffice with pdfimport flag and it opens PDF's in Impress just fine (just tried). Though my version is not updated to the latest -r1 that appeared few days ago

[szatox]

Talking about versions, I'm on ~amd64 and 2 most recent versions I merged fail to import pdf with that generic error I mentioned above.
2025-02-14T16:40:49 >>> app-office/libreoffice-24.2.7.2-r1
2025-02-23T16:47:29 >>> app-office/libreoffice-25.2.1.1
I don't know when it stopped working; I found xournal much more convenient for scribbling on other people's papers (though, unfortunately, much more limited in what it _can_ do).

dmpogo, what exact version do you have? The one that works?
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[leyvi]

sam_, I do have that USE flag enabled. My whole system is nuked right now though, trying to recover from that. I'll revisit this once I have a functioning computer.