https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64353
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 64353
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Summary: : PDF file locked when opened: cannot export to same
name
Severity: normal
Classification: Unclassified
OS: All
Reporter: g...@iname.com
Hardware: Other
Whiteboard: BSA
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Version: (See in Summary)
Component: Printing and PDF export
Product: LibreOffice
Problem description:
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If you open a Hybrid PDF file (e.g. by drag-drop on Writer icon), the file
opens as it should in the original ODT format; however, after you make an edit
to the document, when you then try to save it back as [Hybrid] PDF (i.e.
"Export to PDF") you get the error message that the file is locked.
I only tried this on Windows XP, Vista, 7, but since there is no way to specify
multiple platforms in your bug report i had to select "ALL" for operating
system
Steps to reproduce:
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1. open Writer and create a ODT document, type something into it, and export it
to PDF as "MyHybridPDF.pdf" with "hybrid PDF" selected
2. close Writer
3. drag-and-drop the hybrid PDF "MyHybridPDF.pdf" document created/exported at
step (1) on the Writer icon on the desktop (or use any other way to open the
hybridPDF file in Writer); the document will properly be opened in Writer,
giving you the full native ODT editing capabilities
4. edit the hybrid PDF document
5. now try to export the [edited] document as hybrid PDF BACK TO THE SAME FILE
NAME "MyHybridPDF.pdf": YOU'LL GET "cannot save, document is locked" ERROR
message
Current behavior:
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Document cannot be saved with the same file name as it was opened.
Expected behavior:
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If i decided to use a hybridPDF document, that's because i want to have
document that can be viewed by anybody that i'm sending it to (that's why i
want it PDF), BUT I ALSO WANT IT TO BE EASILY EDITABLE by anyone who have
LibreOffice installed, so I EXPECT TO BE ABLE TO SAVE A HYBRID PDF DOCUMENT
UNDER ITS GOD DAMN ORIGINAL NAME, not to have to go though all this mambo-jumbo
of saving it to a different name, then deleting the original, then renaming the
saved version back to the original name, DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As it stands today, the hybridPDF facility is TOTALLY CRIPPLED to the point
that any newcomer who wants to create documents readable by a large audience
will just drop any plans of switching to libreoffice and will stay with word.
BEING ABLE TO SIMPLY OPEN A HybridPDF, THEN EDIT IT (in native ODF format so
that i don't loose any data), AND THEN SIMPLY SAVE IT BACK (to its original
file name, as ANY normal end-user would expect) IS CRITICAL TO MAKE LibreOffice
A TRULY INTERESTING ALTERNATIVE TO MSO
PS
==
I sent this bug report AGES ago both on the extension's page here
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Talk:Pdf_Import_Extension , and to OpenOffice
here https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=96907 , but nobody seems to
care. Does the LibreOffice have the same stance on this one???????
Operating System: All
Version: (See in Summary)
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