OpenOffice Writer crashes when opening PDF

[danieloarso]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

I've tried to open a large .pdf file (14 Mb, 51 pages) with several images and the program crashes. Also I don't know how to edit a pdf file, since document viewer does not allow me to copy images, only inkscape opens pdf single pages (and inkscape also is the default program to open .pdf)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jun 11 12:27:52 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-18-generic i686

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Why did you file this bug against OpenOffice.org, as far as I can tell it can not open PDF files? What program did you intend to file this bug against?

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

[danieloarso (daniel-oarsoaldea)]

It seemed that since I installed inkscape, it became the default program. Since I cannot copy things from a PDF with Document Viewer I've tried to open it with Text Editor, but it cannot open them. I guess I will have to try another PDF reader that allow me to copy things.
Thanks

[Ben Berry (benarden22)]

In office, there are choices of

calandar
presentation
database
spread sheet
word processor

There is no clearly marked application to open PDF files, which most consider a document.
the default is "open office"

 this crashes when attempting to open a PDF file

In my opinion ( Your mileage may vary )
An application for opening PDF files should be clearly marked in Ubuntu, else Open office should show an error message and make a suggestion as to what document processor / program the user should use.

Thanks

Ben

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Ben,

Have you tried... just double clicking on the pdf? It should automatically open in 'Document Viewer' which is the program evince and is not in the Applications menu. I guess it was disabled from showing in the menu because someone decided it didn't actually need to be in there since it just works when double clicking on PDFs.

Chris

[danieloarso (daniel-oarsoaldea)]

Hi,

I know a wordprocessor does not open PDF.
The thing was that I had to extract images and text from a PDF in order to generate a new word.
Evince did not work fine at this point, so I installed KPDF which works better to me.

Dan