On 06/09/2016 11:11 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 06/09/2016 02:01 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 06/09/2016 10:55 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> On 06/09/2016 01:38 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>>> On 06/09/2016 09:34 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>> What other tool can read in pdfs and provide selecting an image
>>>> (e.g. a
>>>> figure in an IEEE standard) that I can then copy over to Libre Office?
>>>>
>>> Why don't you just use LibreOffice to open the pdf?
>>
>> When I try opening IEEE 802.1AE-2006 pdf, it hangs. And it is only a
>> 142pg document.
>>
> Ok, I've never tried opening one that big. And since that file is not
> publicly available, I can't test it.
http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.1AE-2006.pdf
It turns out that page 43 makes LibreOffice very unhappy for some
reason, probably the diagram background. There's an existing similar
bug report at
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42374
which I added a comment to.