LibreOffice crashes when I try to open a PDF

leyvi · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Sep 2023 Posts: 144

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

Da51d · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Mar 2024 Posts: 77

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 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Sep 2023 Posts: 144

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 · Advocate Joined: 27 Aug 2013 Posts: 3518

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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