@Wol,* Wols Lists wrote > I know developers love to add bells and whistles, and aiui when you > "save as pdf" from LO it can now embed the original document in the pdf > to make it easy to get the document back into editable form, but the > attached email below makes me think "is this wise?". > ... > > makes me think that embedding an editable version in a pdf is not > (certainly as a default) a wise thing to do.
Sorry, but we do not save or print to PDF. We export to PDF. Please be aware of the distinction (and that we can use other OS provided print to PDF). The feature you refer to is known as a Hybrid PDF. It started as an OpenOffice extension but was integrated into LibreOffice core early in the project. It is not enabled by default during export to PDF, but can be set as a persistent option for PDF export. It simply extends the PDF container to attach the ODF archive of the document. Only LibreOffice is intended to extract the document from its ODF container during import of the PDF. Apache OpenOffice may or may not open recent LibreOffice HybridPDF. Once embedded, the ODF archive is *not* hidden inside the PDF archive, and other other programs may see it as an attachement and could extract it. A search of BZ with for strings "Hybrid PDF" should provide some context. As to security believe either the ODF archive or the exported PDF can be encrypted/password protected during save of the ODF and on export as a Hybrid PDF. As you note it is still a users responsibility to redact any content from the document. Stuart -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Save-as-pdf-should-we-embed-the-document-tp4185656p4185715.html Sent from the Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice