As far as I can tell from my experience, this is the case when both the text and the image illustrating the text are ordinary images inserted into a PDF file, which is the case when, for example, the PDF is a scan of an old book, the modern edition of which simply does not exist, and therefore no proper PDF version exists.
For me, this is more of an exception than something that occurs regularly.
Thanks very much for the tip.
And it is indeed a workaround, but it is more relevant to the feature request I left a link to in the “related feature requests” - PDF deep links for pdf images.
The reason for this is that I only put the PDF in the vault temporarily while I’m reading the book. I don’t store PDFs in Obsidian’s vault permanently because a PDF file size several hundred megabytes is not that uncommon for me, and I don’t want to increase the size of my vault
unnecessarily - it just makes it harder to back up and more mobile in general. If I use this feature in the PDF++ plugin, then when I delete a book from the vault after reading it, the inserted link will simply cease to be valid.
Therefore, copying the image itself, and pasting it into a note (and thus creating its file in the attachments folder), seems to me a more reliable and convenient way to use (save) images in notes
I also prefer to avoid overuse of plugins for security reasons and to keep my system simple.
And since this feature seems basic to me, I thought a native implementation of it might be appropriate.
Once again, thank you very much for your reply!