Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibréOffice and PDFs (Again)

Hi :)
I think i still have a few machines on 3.5.7 but most have now
upgraded to something like 4.2.7.  That might have happened when i
upgraded Ubuntu from 12.04 to 14.04 LTS.  It might be possible to ask
your distro's package maintainers if they would be kind enough to make
a more recent version of LibreOffice available in their repos.  They
are usually a fairly friendly bunch (except in Slackware where it's
allegedly just one very busy person (where "bunch" no longer applies
but "friendly" does))
Regards from
Tom :)


On 10 February 2015 at 16:43, V Stuart Foote <VStuart.Foote@utsa.edu> wrote:
> Jim Seymour wrote
> > Hi All,
> >
> > End-users are asking for the ability to edit PDFs.  Spotted this:
> >
> > ...
> > <snip>
> > I know this does *not* work with the LO 3.5.7.2 install on my Linux
> > Mint 13 Maya install.
> >
> > Before I go to the trouble of manually installing later versions of LO
> > right-and-left, under Linux and Windows, to test this..
> >
> > Question: Do recent (i.e. 4.3.x.x and later) versions of LO *capably*
> > allow the opening/editing/saving of PDF files that are writable and not
> > encrypted or otherwise protected?
>
> Simple answer... YES, but LibreOffice is not a PDF editor and will never be.
> It will always import to ODF native formats,  and then must export/print
> back to PDF as a round trip process.
>
> LibreOffice produces high quality PDF  (~v1.4) documents as export/print of
> any of the components.  It will filter import PDF with reasonable fidelity
> into the Draw component--and uses a less functional PDF import for the other
> components--YMMV for any specific task.
>
> It will never be able to edit a PDF.  If  one needs that functionality--the
> Export to Hybrid PDF embeds a copy of the ODF document into the PDF, which
> current versions of LibreOffice can extract and edit natively as ODF.
> Saving back to PDF is via export (hybrid embedding of ODF or not) as a new
> PDF document.
>
>
> > Related: Another co-worker was asking about the ability to create PDF
> > forms.  Again: Can that be done with later/current versions of LO?
>
> ODF documents support fielded data,  and those documents will export to PDF
> (~v1.4) as passable forms. Again YMMV on achieving all functions that a
> proper PDF editor provides with current Adobe PDF specifications.
>
> Your unsupported version of LibreOffice 3.5.7 was release 5 Oct 2012 and is
> well past its end-of-life from the projects perspective.   ref: LibreOffice
> release plan <https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Release_Plan>  . You are
> of course welcome to continue to use that build if it is serviceable for
> your needs.  But then it is likely not worth our trouble to try to assist
> you further...
>
> Good luck.
>
>
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