Importing PDF, No Changes Wanted
I imported a pdf copy of an old book today and I noticed LibreOffice would highlight certain words and numbers on just about every page. If I clicked to highlight, a box would pop up around the word and I could delete the correction, and as far as I could tell it was some sort of correction to make certain text darker or more legible. One of the problems is it wasn’t always aligned perfectly, so this correction would make it look like a word typed over a word.
I would rather preserve the book exactly as is. I’ve already found the setting to shut off automatic spell checking. What other settings should I set or unset to avoid LibreOffice suggesting or making changes I do not want?
Thank you very much!
EDIT: I should add that it’s almost always the last number or word on the page that it’s happening to…if that helps at all.
pdftk is ideally suited to. If you are using GNU/Linux I would strongly suggest using it. Very easy and efficient.
My title and post is a bit misleading because I DO want to make a couple changes by omitting the front and back cover images, which is why I need to edit the pdf. What I meant was, as far as any text is concerned (which some of it seems to be the subject of some autocorrect feature) I wish to leave it alone.
It’s a document from archive.org that I wanted to import into physical book format (at Lulu or Blurb) as a gift, but I also have the bloat issue too. I started with roughly a 20 MB pdf, opened in LO to remove a couple pages, and its export size is about 750 MB. Too big.
Oh well. Looks like I’ll be hitting the Google trail…