[gentoo-user] PDF export/import in LibreOffice

[gentoo-user] PDF export/import in LibreOffice

[Philip Webb]

During my usual Saturday system update, I noticed LibreOffice 3.5.0.1
is now "testing", while there's an upgrade of LO 3.4 in "stable".
I tried 3.5.0.0 when it was briefly released a few weeks ago,
but PDF export was not working.  Has anyone used it with LO 3.5.0.1 ?

Also, I compiled LO 3.4.3.2-r1 with USE="pdfimport",
but it refuses actually to import a PDF when presented with one.
Does anyone know if/how it is possible to get that to work as well ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] PDF export/import in LibreOffice

[Paul Hartman]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> wrote:
> During my usual Saturday system update, I noticed LibreOffice 3.5.0.1
> is now "testing", while there's an upgrade of LO 3.4 in "stable".
> I tried 3.5.0.0 when it was briefly released a few weeks ago,
> but PDF export was not working.  Has anyone used it with LO 3.5.0.1 ?

It works for me. I choose "export as PDF", give it a name, click save,
a PDF is born.

> Also, I compiled LO 3.4.3.2-r1 with USE="pdfimport",
> but it refuses actually to import a PDF when presented with one.
> Does anyone know if/how it is possible to get that to work as well ?

I just open a PDF in LO and it opens like any other supported file.

I wonder if you start lowriter from terminal if there will be any
useful messages output when you try to read/write a PDF.

Here are my USE flags in case it is of any help:

app-office/libreoffice-3.5.0.1  USE="binfilter branding dbus graphite
gstreamer gtk java jemalloc kde mysql nsplugin opengl pdfimport svg
vba webdav xmlsec (-aqua) -debug -eds -gnome -gtk3 -odk -postgres
-test" 0 kB

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF export/import in LibreOffice

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

Am Sonntag, 22. Januar 2012, 19:00:59 schrieb Philip Webb:
> During my usual Saturday system update, I noticed LibreOffice 3.5.0.1
> is now "testing", while there's an upgrade of LO 3.4 in "stable".
> I tried 3.5.0.0 when it was briefly released a few weeks ago,
> but PDF export was not working.  Has anyone used it with LO 3.5.0.1 ?
> 
> Also, I compiled LO 3.4.3.2-r1 with USE="pdfimport",
> but it refuses actually to import a PDF when presented with one.
> Does anyone know if/how it is possible to get that to work as well ?

well, I had to modify a pdf for work. imported it in libreoffice - it worked. 
Kind off. Like all vertical writings were damaged, transparent areas became 
solid, backgrounds lost, icons washed out.

And after an export and re-opening the you did not get what you saved.

A complete clusterfuck.

Then I tried inkscape - and that one was a breeze.

For your problem: maybe because your pdf is some mashed together stuff that 
'looks' like one big graphic, instead of text on a graphical background?

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Re: [gentoo-user] PDF export/import in LibreOffice

[Daniel Troeder]

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On 23.01.2012 01:00, Philip Webb wrote:
> During my usual Saturday system update, I noticed LibreOffice 3.5.0.1
> is now "testing", while there's an upgrade of LO 3.4 in "stable".
> I tried 3.5.0.0 when it was briefly released a few weeks ago,
> but PDF export was not working.  Has anyone used it with LO 3.5.0.1 ?
> 
> Also, I compiled LO 3.4.3.2-r1 with USE="pdfimport",
> but it refuses actually to import a PDF when presented with one.
> Does anyone know if/how it is possible to get that to work as well ?
> 
Lots of those functions need java - make sure you have it configured in
Options->LO->Java.

The problem I'd have is:

$ sudo revdep-rebuild -ie -- -pv
Password:
 * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild

 * Checking reverse dependencies
 * Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update
 * will be emerged.

 * Collecting system binaries and libraries
 * Generated new 1_files.rr
 * Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 * Generated new 2_ldpath.rr
 * Checking dynamic linking consistency
[ 68% ]  *   broken
/usr/lib64/libreoffice/share/extensions/pdfimport/xpdfimport (requires
libpoppler.so.13)

[..]

Which stems from using a binary package
(app-office/libreoffice-bin-3.4.3.2-r1) I guess... Maybe you have the
same problem?

Greetings,
Daniel


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Re: [gentoo-user] PDF export/import in LibreOffice : solved

[Philip Webb]

Thanks for the  2  responses, which are useful.

For export, 3.5.0.1 does the job without any problem,
so it was something wrong with 3.5.0.0, which got pulled very quickly.

For import, I was expecting something more complicated (wry smile).
Yes, all you have to do is 'open' the file & it comes up in Draw,
where you can indeed edit the text.  I didn't try anything else
nor did I try saving an edited version of a PDF,
but it's good to know that you can open one & modify it.

Someone else mentioned Java : no, you don't need Java for PDFs in LO.

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Re: [gentoo-user] PDF export/import in LibreOffice : solved

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

Am Dienstag, 24. Januar 2012, 00:25:47 schrieb Philip Webb:
> Thanks for the  2  responses, which are useful.
> 
> For export, 3.5.0.1 does the job without any problem,
> so it was something wrong with 3.5.0.0, which got pulled very quickly.
> 
> For import, I was expecting something more complicated (wry smile).
> Yes, all you have to do is 'open' the file & it comes up in Draw,
> where you can indeed edit the text.  I didn't try anything else
> nor did I try saving an edited version of a PDF,
> but it's good to know that you can open one & modify it.

as long as you don't want to save it. Sure that is useful.

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Re: [gentoo-user] PDF export/import in LibreOffice

[James Broadhead]

On 23 January 2012 20:55, Daniel Troeder <daniel@admin-box.com> wrote:
> On 23.01.2012 01:00, Philip Webb wrote:
>> During my usual Saturday system update, I noticed LibreOffice 3.5.0.1
>> is now "testing", while there's an upgrade of LO 3.4 in "stable".
>> I tried 3.5.0.0 when it was briefly released a few weeks ago,
>> but PDF export was not working.  Has anyone used it with LO 3.5.0.1 ?
>>
>> Also, I compiled LO 3.4.3.2-r1 with USE="pdfimport",
>> but it refuses actually to import a PDF when presented with one.
>> Does anyone know if/how it is possible to get that to work as well ?
>>
> Lots of those functions need java - make sure you have it configured in
> Options->LO->Java.
>
> The problem I'd have is:
>
> $ sudo revdep-rebuild -ie -- -pv
> ...
>  * Checking dynamic linking consistency
> [ 68% ]  *   broken
> /usr/lib64/libreoffice/share/extensions/pdfimport/xpdfimport (requires
> libpoppler.so.13)
> ...
> Which stems from using a binary package
> (app-office/libreoffice-bin-3.4.3.2-r1) I guess... Maybe you have the
> same problem?

Thanks for this post - I've been needing to use this functionality for
the last few days, and hadn't tried building libreoffice.

I just built app-office/libreoffice-3.5.0.1 (cleverly without
USE="pdfimport", so I installed oracle-pdfimport.oxt manually), and
although it took quite a lot of CPU time to Import, it's now working.

Thanks again,

James