Hi Ariel, all

On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile <[email protected]>
wrote:


> 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 believe that this is an important feature. Actually the Hybrid PDF needs
a better solution than Export to PDF. It isn't user friendly that you need
to remember to Export to PDF instead of Save when you do modifications to
the file (and that you should NOT save the document at the end of the
session if you don't want an extra file with the same content).

 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"
>

Thank you for the explanation. Those are bad news for AOO...

In any case I submitted a bug about the crashing problem. I just found out
that opening any PDF will crash AOO 4.2 if the PDF Import extension is not
installed so there is no need to provide a sample hybrid file

https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125766

Regards,
Pedro

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