Issue 77679 - export to PDF or HTML does not contain text
Summary: export to PDF or HTML does not contain text
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Impress
Classification: Application
Component: save-export (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.2.1 RC1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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URL: http://bugs.debian.org/425521
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Reported: 2007-05-22 14:51 UTC by rene
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:39 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description rene 2007-05-22 14:51:53 UTC 
From http://bugs.debian.org/425521:

--- snip ---
If you make an OO Impress document that contains an
image with a superposed text box,
then export it either to PDF or to HTML,
the resulting document does not contain the text.
(pdf2text, grep, etc find nothing, nor does Google.)
Also, if you print to file and inspect the .ps,
there is no text.

(It contains an *image* of the text, so it looks sort of
OK.)

Problems:   The document will not be indexed by Google
	because there is no text for them to find.

	Text quality is not very good because it's
	been converted to a bitmap.
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Comment 1 christian.guenther 2007-05-24 15:22:49 UTC 
In my mind it looks like a bug in the debian OOo build but nevertheless please
send me a (OOo) 
bugdoc to reproduce the bug.
Comment 2 rene 2007-05-24 15:37:37 UTC 
cgu: so you want to tell me that impress documents exported by the "normal" OOo
to HTML or PDF have normal text for text instead of being an image? This bug is
*not* about the text not appearing in the export...

In any case, you don't have to ask *me* for the doc, but the bug submitter (see
URL). I just forwarded this bug.
Comment 3 rene 2007-05-24 16:22:35 UTC 
cgu: I just tried it with the official 2.2.1rc2.

- add a graphic (be it some box)
- add text (I'ven choosen the title and text style) and added Foo and Bar.

export to HTML. You get a Table of Contents with that one slide and that slide
has Foo and Bar as images.
Comment 4 rene 2007-05-24 16:36:00 UTC 
cgu: Indeed, for PDF it works; also in "my" Verson (tried "my" 2.2.1~rc1).
pdftotext properly gives Foo and Bar... Also with the 2.0.4 of the bug submitter.

But for HTML, see my previous comment. It works when you don't have images on
your slide, but not when you have them on your slide, and the bugs submitter
wants the text then to be text, too.

I've no idea how google tried to index the stuff in case of PDFs, though. Maybe
something there is still broken?
Comment 5 rene 2007-05-24 16:51:11 UTC 
"But for HTML, see my previous comment. It works when you don't have images on
your slide, but not when you have them on your slide, and the bugs submitter
wants the text then to be text, too."

correction (hmm..): Tried it again with the "normal" OOo 2.2.1rc2 and even when
only text is on the slide the export results in the slide being an image.
Comment 6 christian.guenther 2007-07-06 13:53:10 UTC 
Export 'text only' pages as text and not as graphic is an enhancement.