Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [us-marketing] Marketing material suggestion: Why LibreOffice?

On 12/31/2012 09:32 AM, Immanuel Giulea wrote:
> In the new version of Office 2013, you will be able to:
>
> > *3. Edit PDF documents in Word 2013:* You can open a PDF in Word, and its
> > paragraphs, lists, tables, and other content act just like Word content.
> > You can make changes to the file as per your requirements and save it back
> > again as a PDF document. (1)
> Will LO4 Writer be able to do that?
>
>
>
> (1)
> http://www.pc-tablet.com/11858-microsoft-office-2013-release-date-coming-10-features-office-2013/#xUK5qHZBSPEUjsZe.99
Testing LO 4.0 Beta 2 - PDF files are opened directly into Draw and can 
be edited there. This is the same as before. Writer can export to PDF 
and one of the options is to embed an odt version with the PDF to 
allowing editing with Writer. From the article I think Word-2013 is 
directly opening the PDF files but the author is unclear about this point.

A couple of points about direct editing PDF files. One PDF files are 
intend to be stand alone documents for users to read and if allowed 
enter data in specific fields. Direct editing of the PDF files is by 
users is not intended or desirable. This tends to undermine the idea 
that PDF documents are reference only documents because most end users 
can not edit them. If one can edit easily the source document such as an 
ODT file in Write and Export/Save/Print as a PDF file the real 
functionality exists for the creator to revise the PDF file as needed. 
The latter has been available in LO/AOO for sometime now. With an 
embedded ODT file, any user with LO can edit the PDF file.

I think the need of the creator to modify the source document is met by 
the LO export feature. IMHO users do not need the ability to modify PDF 
files except in some extremely rare circumstances. I have never modified 
a PDF file that I received or downloaded or needed to modify the these 
files. I only have ever needed to modify the PDF files I created, which 
I can do in LO already.

Looking at the list the author gave IMHO I do not see any feature that 
is a must have. I see many that are nice-to-have but are not going to 
make me want to buy MSO 2013. IMHO this is a problem of any office suite 
(LO/AOO/MSO/etc.) that new features are almost always nice-to-have at 
best for users but not something that will make them eagerly buy or 
download the latest version. Since LO and AOO are free, it is easier for 
me to justify upgrading; it only takes a few minutes of my time to 
upgrade which can be done at my convenience.

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Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com


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