Bug 35289 - Libreoffice does not attach OLE objects when exporting to pdf
Summary: Libreoffice does not attach OLE objects when exporting to pdf
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Printing and PDF export (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/a...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: filter:pdf
Depends on:
Blocks: PDF-Export OLE-Objects
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Reported: 2011-03-14 03:55 UTC by Alejandro Moreno
Modified: 2024-03-14 10:18 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Attachments
Test document (15.63 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2021-01-26 21:42 UTC, Alejandro Moreno
Details
Screenshot Writer and PDF (71.08 KB, image/png)
2021-01-27 09:15 UTC, Heiko Tietze
Details
Export to PDF with MSO (6.30 KB, image/png)
2022-10-04 07:43 UTC, Heiko Tietze
Details

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Description Alejandro Moreno 2011-03-14 03:55:52 UTC
If you insert an object in a file and export it to pdf, the object is not
attached in pdf.

It would be a good idea that objects that are inserted in a file are added as attachments to export to pdf.
Comment 1 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 11:50:49 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 2 Buovjaga 2021-01-26 09:11:10 UTC
Design team: this request was self-confirmed 10 years ago and lacked a proper description. However, it seems to be about OLE objects.
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2021-01-26 13:56:58 UTC
If I add a OLE objects whether internal formats such as Chart or as file, in both cases the content is exported to PDF as seen on the document.
Comment 4 Alejandro Moreno 2021-01-26 21:42:20 UTC
Created attachment 169168 [details]
Test document

If you open the document on Libreoffice you can see that have an OLE object test.txt and you can open it.

If you export to pdf, in the pdf you could see an icon but you can not get test.txt attach into pdf.
Comment 5 Heiko Tietze 2021-01-27 09:15:03 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 Xisco Faulí 2021-02-09 12:15:53 UTC
You can't confirm your own bugs. Moving it back to UNCONFIRMED until someone
else confirms it.
Comment 7 suryarajendran168 2021-02-11 22:32:39 UTC
This issue exist in LibreOfficeDev 7.2
The inserted OLE object is missing in the PDF document.
Comment 8 suryarajendran168 2021-02-11 22:33:05 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 Heiko Tietze 2021-02-12 07:59:27 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 10 Alistair Saywell 2022-10-03 22:25:40 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #5)
> Created attachment 169173 [details]
> Screenshot Writer and PDF
> 
> Your document contains of a dummy text and an image.

The original attachment contains dummy text and an **icon** which if double-clicked opens another Writer document with further dummy text
Comment 11 Heiko Tietze 2022-10-04 07:43:40 UTC
Created attachment 182820 [details]
Export to PDF with MSO

Confirming. However, when I export with MSO the embedded object is taken into the document. Makes me wonder what expectation users may have thinking about more complex objects. Isn't our approach more WYSIWYG than this unpleasing solution?
Comment 12 Heiko Tietze 2022-10-04 07:45:07 UTC
Miklos, what do you think about exporting embedded objects?
Comment 13 Miklos Vajna 2022-10-04 15:42:47 UTC
Loosing less data during PDF export sounds like a reasonable improvement, if somebody wants to work on this.
Comment 14 rik 2022-10-10 12:57:21 UTC
I can add to this that I tried today to insert a spreadsheet-file as an OLE object in a LO writer document, and that it works in Writer (i can open the document by double clicking on the icon in the file), but after exporting to PDF, this no longer works. Double clicking the icon in the resulting PDF does nothing. All other hyperlinks work correctly. 

using LO 7.3.6.2 on Kubuntu
Comment 15 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-09-09 21:43:58 UTC
Still the case in recent master build:

Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: beaea2e992912b4747d790070b26371f557b1f57
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Same in OOo 3.3, so inherited.
Comment 16 PrimaWill 2024-03-14 10:18:55 UTC
Bug mentioned in https://litaviser.com/ confirmed for LbreOffice 4.2.4.2 Build-ID: 63150712c6d317d27ce2db16eb94c2f3d7b699f8