Asked • 05/06/19

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, the metafile loses other details (missing lines, text etc.)It is similar if I export the drawing from LOD to an EPS or WMF/EMF file and then inserting that into Word: many details are lost or wrong.I ended up exporting to high resolution PNG (300 dpi) and inserting that into Word.There must be a better way (that preserves the vector nature of the drawing). PS: I noticed exporting to PDF gives "perfect" results. Could that (a PDF file or part of it) be imported into Word maybe?

Maggie G.

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I have had issues like this in the past and have often resorted to using a PNG or TIFF to make sure it looks good in Word or other programs. According to Word, you should be able to import it directly from a PDF but that might still alter the quality. I found this for you: https://superuser.com/questions/426405/importing-an-eps-vector-file-to-microsoft-word-without-losing-quality I hope that helps you!
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