https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122733

Ariel Constenla-Haile <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Ariel Constenla-Haile <[email protected]> ---
This can be NOTABUG or WONTFIX, or both.

a) all OpenOffice.org versions open a PDF file with the ASCII filter in Writer
(this is the default for every unknown file format).

b) the capability to open a PDF file containing  the original OpenDocument
Format document embedded inside the PDF (known as Hybrid PDF) is a feature
added by an extension, not a core OpenOffice feature: you need to install an
extension

c) the PDF Import extension is no longer developed nor built at Apache
OpenOffice due to license conflict of the main external component. This is true
since AOO 3.4.0.

d) In 3.4.* importing hybrid PDFs worked by installing this *external*
extension:
http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/oracle-pdf-import-extension
This is a third party extension. Is not under the control of this project.

e) Due to the removal of the STLport library, C++ extension built with previous
AOO SDKs cannot be installed in 32 bit systems (all Windows and MacOS where AOO
is a 32 bit application, Linux 32 bit; but the extension still work in Linux 64
bit). Due to this, the Oracle PDF Import extension does no longer work in
Windows, MacOS and Linux 32 bit.

In conclusion:

* this isn't a regression:
- the feature depends on a third party extension
- the extension is no longer developed nor built at AOO since 3.4.0
- the STLport library removal is a new FEATURE, so the problem that 3.4.* C++
extensions don't work in AOO 4.0.0 is not a regression but the consequence of a
feature

* this isn't a release blocker: there is nothing this project can do in the
short time to build and distribute the PDF Import extension for 4.0.0. The main
external dependency has an incompatible license.

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