Bug 64353 - : PDF file locked when opened: cannot export to same name
Summary: : PDF file locked when opened: cannot export to same name
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 60478
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Printing and PDF export (show other bugs)
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(earliest affected)
(See in Summary)
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: highest major
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Reported: 2013-05-08 10:42 UTC by gyll
Modified: 2013-05-08 16:18 UTC (History)
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Description gyll 2013-05-08 10:42:21 UTC
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
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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)
Comment 1 bfoman (inactive) 2013-05-08 16:18:25 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 60478 ***