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[ooo-build] [kubuntu] pdfexport overwrites files without warning

Bug #338640 reported by Stephan Burkhardt on 2009-03-06

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	OpenOffice	Fix Released	Medium	novell-bugs #487952
	openoffice.org (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Chris Cheney	Ubuntu ubuntu-9.04

Bug Description

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

When exporting a document as pdf, the ending .pdf is automatically attached to the filename and if a file with that name already exists, it is overwritten, but there is no warning. If the filename is given explicitly with the ending .pdf, then there is a warning that a file will be overwritten.

Reproduce:
- Export a document as pdf. Choose the name "foobar"
- The file will be saved as "foobar.pdf"
- Change the file and export it again, choose "foobar" as name
- The new pdf will also have the filename "foobar.pdf" and thus overwrite the old file without warning

Greetings Stephan

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1-11ubuntu2.1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64

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Stephan Burkhardt (oceanofsolaris) wrote on 2009-03-06:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote on 2009-03-19:

Do you still have this problem with the new version of OOo in the ppa at https://launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/+archive ?

Changed in openoffice.org (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Stephan Burkhardt (oceanofsolaris) wrote on 2009-03-19:

Yes the problem still occurs with the new version. Of course only as long as the box for automatic file extension is ticked.

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote on 2009-03-20:

Which box would that be? I don't see one on my system, can you tell me exactly where you see it and/or include a screenshot of it?

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Stephan Burkhardt (oceanofsolaris) wrote on 2009-03-20:

Red arrow at the Box for automatic file extension Edit (45.1 KiB, image/png)

Here we go. I hope you don't mind the german text.

Actually the whole problem also occurs when saving as odt. Might be the fault of the KDE3 dialog to choose the file.

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote on 2009-03-21:

Thanks for the screenshot, I'll have to investigate this further on Kubuntu.

Changed in openoffice.org:
status:	Incomplete → Confirmed

Chris Cheney (ccheney) on 2009-03-21

summary:

- pdfexport overwrites files without warning
+ [kubuntu] pdfexport overwrites files without warning

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote on 2009-03-23: Re: [kubuntu] pdfexport overwrites files without warning

Confirmed on ooo-build OOo 3.0.1

Changed in openoffice.org (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	Confirmed → Triaged
summary:	- [kubuntu] pdfexport overwrites files without warning + [ooo-build] [kubuntu] pdfexport overwrites files without warning

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2009-03-23

Changed in openoffice:
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

Chris Cheney (ccheney) on 2009-04-07

Changed in openoffice.org (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → ccheney
importance:	Medium → High
milestone:	none → ubuntu-9.04

Chris Cheney (ccheney) on 2009-04-08

Changed in openoffice.org (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote on 2009-04-08:

Unfortunately my patch broke the build so I had to revert it. It looks fairly easy to fix for someone familiar with KDE so hopefully it can be fixed in time for the release.

Changed in openoffice.org (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Committed → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2009-04-10

Changed in openoffice:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2009-04-14:

This bug was fixed in the package openoffice.org - 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3

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openoffice.org (1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Added java-runtime-depends to openoffice.org-java-common depends.
    (LP: #360120)
  * Resynchronise with ooo-build-3-0-1 (0acbcec5cc964297d0074c8ad9a2fa21bf8f1506).
    - Corrected the KDE file dialog don't overwrite patch. (LP: #338640)

-- Chris Cheney <email address hidden> Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:30:00 -0500