kword missing PDF import filter

[Duncan Lithgow]

Binary package hint: kword

kword 2.1.2 (I only installed kword and its dependencies, not koffice)
ubuntu 10.04

Various places on the net say that Kword can import PDF files, for example here: http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/office_guides/koffice_kword_guide/filters-included.html

Kword 2.1.2 in Ubuntu 10.04 is missing the PDF import filter. Kword is the only linux native application which can import PDF files and export them as ODT files, so this is an important function currently missing from Ubuntu.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

These websites are most likely referring to KOffice1. You may wish to request this feature at bugs.kde.org, but this is not a packaging bug. KOffice2 just doesn't support PDF import yet.

[Matt Wilkie (maphew)]

but this used to work!

In 2007 I used Ubuntu's Kword for exactly this. I forget which Ubuntu version I was using at the time.

[Matt Wilkie (maphew)]

I believe this bug is marked invalid in error, this changelog has several occurences of changes in Kword pdf import filter (http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/k/koffice/koffice_1.5.0-0ubuntu9.4/changelog) [edited]:
===================================================
-- Kees Cook <email address hidden> Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:04:47 -0700

koffice (1:1.5.0-0ubuntu9.3) dapper-security; urgency=low
...
  * Remotely supplied pdf files can be used to disrupt the koffice PDF
    import filter on the client machine and possibly execute arbitrary code.
...
 -- Ben Burton <email address hidden> Sat, 22 Jan 2005 01:48:18 +1100

koffice (1:1.3.5-1) unstable; urgency=high
...
  * More xpdf security fixes. A new integer overflow vulnerability in
    KWord's PDF import filter has been fixed (as a patch on top of the
    upstream 1.3.5 release). See the following URLs for further information:
...
===================================================

if this changelog refers to the Koffice1 mentioned above and not Koffice2, please provide links or instructions for how to switch back to Koffice1. Thank you.

[Matt Wilkie (maphew)]

other sightings of successfully using ubuntu Kword to import pdf (i.e. validations that this is a bug)

http://www.ubuntu.thiyagaraaj.com/Home/posts/dec-2009/convertingpdftodocinubuntu
http://millionchimpanzees.blogspot.com/2010/03/converting-pdf-to-word-doc-with-kword.html
http://embraceubuntu.com/2007/04/10/convertimport-from-pdf-and-keep-the-formatting/