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LibreOffice: Exporting editable PDFs
Thread poster: Jean Dimitriadis
Jean Dimitriadis
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Nov 22, 2019

Hello,

Some of you may already know this, but this feature has recently come into my attention, and I thought it may be worth sharing:

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LibreOffice (a free/libre open source and cross-platform office suite) offers the ability to export PDFs which embed the equivalent OpenDocument (ODF) file.

In practice, the exported file reads as a standard PDF that can be opened in any PDF reader.

The added benefit is that it can also be opene... See more
Hello,

Some of you may already know this, but this feature has recently come into my attention, and I thought it may be worth sharing:

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LibreOffice (a free/libre open source and cross-platform office suite) offers the ability to export PDFs which embed the equivalent OpenDocument (ODF) file.

In practice, the exported file reads as a standard PDF that can be opened in any PDF reader.

The added benefit is that it can also be opened and edited directly in LibreOffice as a word processing file, with no conversion and no format loss.

Further reading: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq/Writer/PDF_Hybrid#What_is_a_hybrid_PDF_file.3F

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I can see how this feature could be useful in the context of receiving/preparing/editing/sharing source and target files…

Jean

[Edited at 2019-11-22 11:59 GMT] ▲ Collapse
 
Tom in London
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Yes, and... Nov 22, 2019

.. after editing the PDF in LibreOffice, you can export it as a PDF that Acrobat Reader will open !!!

Wow!



[Edited at 2019-11-22 12:40 GMT]
 
Jean Dimitriadis
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Exactly! Nov 22, 2019

And the then exported PDF is still editable, and so forth.

Oh, the possibilities

Tom in London
 
Tom in London
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And... Nov 22, 2019

Jean Dimitriadis wrote:

And the then exported PDF is still editable, and so forth.

Oh, the possibilities


And you can do find/replace on the PDF ! So you can actually translate a PDF directly, without converting it to some other format !
 


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