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How do I add extra arbitrary connectors to a rectangle in LibreOffice Draw?

If I create two rectangles and then use a connector to link between them, the only choice is between the middle point on the four sides. I need to be able to create extra connection points at arbitrary locations, but there is no obvious way to do…
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Changing the page layout and canvas size in LibreOffice Draw

This is probably a simple question, but I don't can't find how to change the page layout (e.g. horizontal vs vertical) or the canvas size in LibreOffice Draw. Is this possible at all?
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How can I open PDF files in LibreOffice Writer rather than Draw?

Some websites offer conversion of PDFs int DOCX or ODT files; and I think Adobe Acrobat (at least the full version) offers an export functionality to all sorts of formats. But in LibreOffice, if I open a PDF files, it opens in Draw. Now, Draw is…
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Export from Libreoffice Draw to PDF with autocrop?

In Libreoffice Draw when using File → Export and choosing an image format, notably when using EPS to preserve the vector character of the figure, there is a checkbox "selection" which causes the exported image to be cropped automatically to the…
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How to copy drawing from LibreOffice Draw to MS Word?

What is the best way to copy a drawing (complete document) from LibreOffice Draw into an MS Word document (using MS Word) on Windows? A "naive" copy&paste form Draw to Word gives next to useless results. The bitmap method gives too low resolution,…
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LibreOffice Draw: text on a connector

In LibreOffice Draw, I have some connectors connecting boxes, and I have put text on the connectors. The connector line goes through the text. Is there any way to have the connector line disappear around the text, so that the text looks…
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Free panning/scrolling on LibreOffice Draw

LibreOffice Draw allows me to scroll vertically or horizontally using my mouse as follows: Scroll Wheel: Scroll vertically Shift + Scroll Wheel: Scroll horizontally My question is: Is there any way to have free scrolling/panning on it? By free…
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How do you draw freehand (like a pencil tool) in LibreOffice Draw?

How do you draw freehand in LibreOffice Draw? Is there a "pencil tool"? I can see on the left that there's a button to change the "Line Color" and it looks like a pencil, but clicking this doesn't seem to let me draw anything.
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LibreOffice Draw Custom Galleries?

I'm working with LibreOffice Draw as an alternative to Visio. One of the things I'd like to do is to setup custom galleries with shapes that I've created. On my personal workstation this is easy enough as I have PNGs and I've pulled them in. My…
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Libre Office trying to save as PDF

I'm using LibreOffice and have opened a PDF in Draw. It is a form for customers to fill in, and I want them to be able to fill in via there PDF reader, then save and send back to me. However when I save and open in Adobe reader 7 or any version, it…
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How do I set the default page orientation for LibreOffice Draw?

Every time I start a new document in LibreOffice Draw, I have to change the orientation to landscape. I can't find anything in the options about making this the default. How do I change the default Page Setup values so that Orientation is Landscape…
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How to change size of embedded openoffice/libreoffice draw object in ms word document?

I am using MS Office 2010 and LibreOffice 4.1.0.4. I wanted to embed a few draw diagrams in my Word document (copy pasting from LibreOffice Draw into MS Word is not an option for me because I want to be able to change the diagrams later and I don't…
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How do I print a large page across multiple pages in LibreOffice Draw?

I've got a sign with text that needs to be 12 inches square. When I go to print it and select "Distribute on multiple sheets" in the LibreOffice Draw tab of the print dialog it is resizing the text to fit on the first page and then putting some of…
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Adjusting cell padding in LibreOffice Draw

I'm fooling around with tables in LibreOffice Draw and can't for the life of me figure out how to reduce the cell padding in these tables. You can see a sample of my table: The image is super tiny, but you can see how the words have a huge padding…
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Add glue points to table in Libreoffice Draw

Is there a way to add glue points to table in Libreoffice Draw ? There are 4 standard glue points but I cannot add extra ones. By table I mean the object that you obtain by clicking Insert->Table.
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