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ODF Support In Google Drive
An anonymous reader writes: Google's Chris DiBona told a London conference last week that ODF support was coming next year, but today the Google Drive team unexpectedly launched support for all three of the main variants — including long-absent Presentation files. You can now simply open ODT, ODS and ODP files in Drive with no fuss. It lacks support for comments and changes but at least it shows progress towards full support of the international document standard, something conspicuously missing for many years.
You seem to be either creating an odd situation on purpose, or getting stuck on one you've come across. When you grab a section of formatted text from a PDF, LibreOffice considers it a unitary chunk -- and tries to keep it together. If you want to break this, or have LibreOffice treat it differently - there's a pretty wide variety of methods to do so:
First method: grab the bit above your graphic - paste it, then paste your graphic, then paste the text below it.
Second Method: paste as unformatted text, either by using paste-special "unformatted text" or washing in through notepad. If I want text, not formatting, I habitually wash it through notepad. Open notepad and paste in text, highlight and copy.
So I'm not sure which part you object to and I don't know what your desired behavior is, but for me LibreOffice's behaviour is very reasonable -- and when I want it to do something different, it's fairly simple to accomplish.
If you want to point out a real weak point in Libre Writer? Labels. Labels implementation is still (I think) both bad and confusing. I know it is confusing. I wish I had time to look at it and offer to help fix it. For now, I just hope someone else does.
- Jeff