From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020606 Description of problem: Text that is highlighted in xpdf, will not be pasted into openoffice. If you center-click in the open office window, nothing appears. However, if you do the same thing in an XTERM it will appear. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open a document in xpdf 2.Highlight some text 3.Open oowrite 4.Center click mouse button... Nothing happens Actual Results: Pasted text does not appear in open office Expected Results: Pasted text SHOULD appear in open office. Additional info: Why --- Xpdf doesn't respond to the "TARGETS" atom, and as a result will not paste into applications that don't automatically try the "XA_STRING" atom type. Xpdf SHOULD respond to the TARGETS atom accoring to the ICCCM. See http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/ 2.6.2. Target Atoms ...... Selection owners are required to support the following targets. All other targets are optional. TARGETS - The owner should return a list of atoms that represent the targets for which an attempt to convert the current selection will succeed (barring unforseeable problems such as Alloc errors). This list should include all the required atoms. ...... The Fix ------- When presented with a targets ATOM, xpdf will now Why did it work at all? ----------------------- Older applications must have tried "XA_STRING" by default when the target atom didn't work. With the fix, xpdf now pastes to: xterm, (As It did before) kterm, (As It did before) abiword, openoffice OS tested: Redhat Linux 7.2
Created attachment 89842 [details] Fix for xpdf to allow cut 'n paste to work properly This patch was writtern for xpdf v2.0. The patch basically makes xpdf ICCCM compliant. It will probably apply to the earlier versions as well.
rebuild xpdf with your patch. It does not work with openoffice!
What version of openoffice and version of xpdf did you use? I just looked at xpdf v1.0, and it is radically different. Last night, on a clean Redhat 8.0 machine, I downloaded xpdf-2.01, applied the patch from this page. This is what worked: 1) Hightlight text in the xpdf 2) Center click in OpenOffice NOTE: I center clicked, rather than cut and paste. Also, make sure that xpdf really owns the selection. If you highlight something else xpdf will NOT erase its own highlight. (Unlike Xterm) Also, I've find that some pdfs don't allow cut and paste. (I think that this is a security issue) Try the following: 1) Highlight something in xpdf. 2) Center click in an xterm. (if text appears, it is a good pdf) 3) Center click in openoffice. If things don't work, I will fix this.... Just give me more details.
it looks like that the fix is already in new upstream 2.02.