•  Martin   ( @mundane@feddit.nu ) 
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    “Compatible” with Microsoft Office, just don’t expect for your colleagues to be able to open the document in Microsoft Office after you edited it in LibreOffice.

    Edit: Don’t expect your colleagues to be able to open it without the layout being broken.

    • LibreOffice is compatible with Microsoft’s OOXML spec. They sold every suite on it in the nearly 20 years ago to stop fines from the EU. They sold competing suites on it instead of using anything else available.

      Microsoft however never actually fully supported their own spec and will save as “OOXML Transition” or whatever they call it now because they’ve been in ‘transition’ for nearly 20 years but still have proprietary blobs inside of it. You can however make MS Office save in OOXML Strict which is supposed to be compliant to the now ISO spec that LibreOffice actually supports.

      This isn’t LibreOffice’s fault.

    • In my experience, it’s normally the other way around. I have no trouble opening doc and docx files made in libreoffice with MS office, but vice versa can sometimes be a little bit chancey.

      Of course PowerPoint vs Impress just destroys the formatting both ways.

    • It really depends on the document. I’ve never had a issue personally but when I heard about issues its normally with specific elements.

      Microsoft doesn’t follow there own spec but with each libreoffice release they fix the issues created by Microsoft

    •  ebits21   ( @ebits21@lemmy.ca ) 
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      Have you used it lately? Broken layouts don’t happen for me very often in the last few years (I work in an office with libreoffice/word used beside each other daily).

  • Calc is fine, Writer is… alright and can be used if compatibility with MS stuff for collaboration is not your primary goal. But my main complaint is about Impress, which still can’t manage inline formulas, so I can’t use it for scientific presentation without ugly and time wasting workarounds That’s a pity.

  • Editing PDFs

    For everyone wanting to do that:

    1. Don’t. PDFs are made for printing and viewing. If possible, edit Text documents not PDFs.
    2. For merging, removing, rotating, rearranging pages: PDFarranger, really stable and awesome tool even for 500+ pages
    3. For adding Text or marking: Firefox, then Okular. Okular Flatpak has full portal support (does not need any filesystem permission)
    4. For censoring stuff: GIMP. Just marking with black is not secure, you need to edit the image! If it is text, use Libreoffice Draw
    5. Adding Signatures: Okular, Firefox (I think?)
    6. For actually changing stuff in the PDF: Libreoffice Draw
  • I’ve been using it for years and usually install it on new computers my relatives ask me to set up. I’m not sneaking it in. If they need ms office for work, I’m not going to screw it up for them.

    I stopped for a long time because of a terrible bug that deleted an important file, but in the years since I started using it again, I’ve never had the same problem.

    I like it for writing up work emails and printing out estimates. I used to have trouble keeping my intended layout, but not so much these days. Everything I do is pretty uncomplicated, though.

  •  M500   ( @M500@lemmy.ml ) 
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    15 months ago

    I have been using Libreoffice for a while. I am not a poweruser of these kinds of apps, but I still need them.

    I have been very happy with them and they are decently customizable. The ram usage difference between this and the office suite was bigger than I expected.

    There is one thing I have not been able to figure out.

    Is there a way to make the “web View” the default when opening a document?