Hi Pedro, all, On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 12:20:54PM +0100, Pedro Lino wrote: > I'm sorry but you are mistaken. You can create Hybrid PDFs with > a standard AOO install (just go to Export as PDF, anc check the last > option Embed this document inside the PDF) > > However you can not open the file you just created without installing > the optional extension...
This was a change introduced in AOO4. The idea behind was to open the possibility to develop the Hybrid-PDF import independently from the PDF import, be it by any third party as an extension or even by this project as a core import filter. > I am well aware of that. But since Oracle kindly donated the > OpenOffice source code to Apache, wouldn't they be willing to ease up > on the license for the PDF importer since it makes hybrid pdf editing > impossible without the optional extension? In fact what AOO needs is > Ariel's extension, not Oracle's... The code of the extension was donated by Oracle to the ASF, it is located in https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/trunk/main/sdext/source/pdfimport/ but the extension depends on an external library to read the PDF, and this library cannot be included in OpenOffice due to its license http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/about.html "Distribution conditions" Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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