https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52229
stfhell <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #6 from stfhell <[email protected]> --- I attached some sample document in a ZIP file. I used Adobe Reader 9.4.2 on 64-bit-Linux (Ubuntu 12.04). There are 2 issues here with inserting text from Adobe Reader. It may not convern other PDF-viewers like "evince", but this doesn't necessarily have to do with a bug in Adobe Reader. I think a statement like "It's generally difficult to copy/paste from AR, often formatting can't be read. That's not specific to LibO, but to PDF" is no longer true. (There are some problems with hard line-breaks or hyphens, but generally copy-and-paste from PDF has become fairly easy.) Adobe Reader copies text _with_ formatting information into the clipboard (which can be quite useful). If you paste it into LO via Ctrl-V there are 3 issues, really: (1) Special characters (éÉÄÖÜß) are misread and converted into 2-character sequences (probably a conversion from the wrong code set?). This is a very old bug. (2) The text from the clipboard is inserted at the wrong place (in the sample documents: at the end of the document), and the document's page settings are changed. This is a new bug, introduced with LO 3.5. LO 3.4 didn't have this. (3) The formatting information from the PDF file is used; however LO uses a font name for which it will not find a font file. In the sample: "Times New Roman" text is formatted with "BAAAAA+TimesNewRomanPSMT" as font name. I suppose this is the font name mangled by the Adobe Reader, not a bug in LO. You can avoid all these issues if you copy the text as unformatted text into LO via Ctrl-Shift-V (which is not always available, however): Special characters are treated correctly and the page attributes are not changed. I assume that LO's interpretation of what Reader puts in the clipboard differs from Reader's, and there is of course the possibility that Reader's clipboard format is bad. But issue (2) cannot be a bug in Reader. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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