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I downloaded a presentation and edited it in LibreOffice Impress. Apparently I didn't pay attention it was only saved in /tmp - and it's gone now, but I exported it as PDF, which I still have.

Now I need to do some remarks on the presentation. Is there a way to open it again in Impress? I'm doing small changes now in LibreOffice Draw - which doesn't let me export to odp or ppt.

Qohelet
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  • "*it was only saved in /tmp*" Saving in /tmp is not the normal behavior of LibreOffice, so that bit seems rather confusing to me. – user535733 Jan 26 '21 at 14:14
  • It was saved in /tmp by Firefox as I downloaded it. I opened the downloaded file in /tmp via the browser @user535733 – Qohelet Jan 26 '21 at 14:34
  • One assumes you have already seen https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/154987/impress-and-pdf-import/, among the more recent iterations of this question. – user535733 Jan 26 '21 at 14:38
  • @user535733 - checked it already. Doesn't provide any solution, just a different description of the problem – Qohelet Jan 26 '21 at 15:28
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    It provides the best solution that I suspect you're going to find: Each PDF page must be imported into Draw, then copy/paste into Impress. There is no direct import solution. With complex slides, this will be a mess. LibreOffice can often recover from tempfiles...but setting /tmp as your download directory likely eliminated that possibility. – user535733 Jan 26 '21 at 15:39
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    Pretty much a duplicate of [Is there any tool to convert pdf to ppt/odp slides in Linux/ Ubuntu offline?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/797836/is-there-any-tool-to-convert-pdf-to-ppt-odp-slides-in-linux-ubuntu-offline) – Richlv Feb 21 '23 at 11:06
  • Just for the record - copy-pasting manually each slide not required, see https://askubuntu.com/a/1365457/109174 and https://askubuntu.com/a/1434843/109174 . – Richlv Feb 21 '23 at 11:07

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You can import it to Impress by setting the file type and filter manually when opening (File → Open...), usually through a drop down, to PDF - Portable Document Format (Impress).

You can also use the command line option --infilter=impress_pdf_import.

Otherwise it will default to Draw and will open in a new Draw window as you experienced. This also happened to me and can be confusing.

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