could not paste w/ fixedwidth on lucid & maverick spreadsheet

[chrone]

dear all,

i've been experiencing technical problems with copy/paste from PDF -opened both by acroread and evince- to OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet with fixed width option in paste special.

On Lucid & Maverick, by opening the PDF and copy it and paste it to spreadsheet, although I have chosen fixed width, the results were pasted with left alignment without tab or space like the sources.

On Hardy, I could easily copy the content of the PDF and pasted it into spreadsheet and have the right fixed width. I could separated each collum just fine.

I tried to install Hardy on Lucid & Maverick using Virtualbox, and I found out that when I opened and copied the PDF on Hardy, and pasted it to Spreadsheet on Lucid/Maverick, the fixed width worked as it should be!

I guess there's something changed with the copy buffer in Lucid & Maverick as I recall I could still copy paste fixed width PDF to Spreadsheet on Karmic and Jaunty.

Hope this will be figured out since windows produced the same results as Lucid & Maverick. This function in Ubuntu helps! :)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34-generic-pae 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 15 10:08:23 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: meta-gnome2

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

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