Re: How can I waterproof my document
Am 24.06.23 um 23:48 schrieb The Telepath: Hello OpenOffice, I am wondering how you can waterproof a document on OpenOffice. I am a writer and I am trying to send a copy of my book to people who are giving me feedback. I don't want others to edit my book while they are viewing it. What is the best way to send people a copy of my book, and they can only view it? I would not dismiss the option to create images and from that creating a pdf, which is not editable. There is open source software which can do that quite easily, I think e.g. of gscan2pdf. You need a scanner, preferably with an ADF, then you can put the printed paper into the scanner and gscan2pdf scans all pages for you and creates the pdf when saving. You can disable the OCR option, but that wouldn't make it editable anyway. If OCR is on, the document becomes searchable, which may be helpful. Reagards Martin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: How can I waterproof my document
Linda, Yes you can!Go to Prlnt and in the list of printers you should see "Print PDF" select this then follow the instructions and it will give you a print preview. Instead of printing just close it and it will be wherever you told Adobe to put it in the instructions mentioned above. You do need to have Adobe Acroba loaded.Regards,Alan.Sent from my Galaxy Original message From: Linda Hull Date: 25/06/2023 14:48 (GMT+00:00) To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: How can I waterproof my document It used to be that you could make something into a .pdf and they would haveto spend a lot of time and money to mess with it. Not so, anymore.LindaOn Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 10:58 PM Richard Detwiler wrote:> Waterproof? You mean print it out and laminate it? I suspect that's not> what you mean ...>> On 6/24/2023 5:48 PM, The Telepath wrote:> > Hello OpenOffice,> > I am wondering how you can waterproof a document on OpenOffice. I am a> > writer and I am trying to send a copy of my book to people who are giving> > me feedback. I don't want others to edit my book while they are viewing> it.> > What is the best way to send people a copy of my book, and they can only> > view it?> >> > Thanks,> > Jada Schallhorn> >>> -> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org>>
Re: How can I waterproof my document
Sent from AOL on Android On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 6:33 PM, ACG wrote: Hello Jada, I think you may mean watermark rather than waterproof!! But I don't think this prevents copying. This is extremely difficult to do effectively as it is so easy to find workarounds. The best way would probably to save each page as an image rather than text and then save it as .pdf - there may be an easy way to do this commercially, but it is unlikely to be cheap. You can set it as "read only" - but the problem here is that it is easy for anyone to "copy and paste", creating their own editable document. I had this problem recently and I resorted to hard copy. Quite a lot of printing (and then there is the cost of delivery). But I think this is really the only safe way. By the way I think that you will get far better feedback from hard copy. First they can write on your pages and secondly no-one will be frustrated from seeing only one screenful at a time. With hard copy you can stick fingers (or other bookmarks) into several different places to be able to flip back and forth Adrian Grant On 24/06/2023 22:48, The Telepath wrote: > Hello OpenOffice, > I am wondering how you can waterproof a document on OpenOffice. I am a > writer and I am trying to send a copy of my book to people who are giving > me feedback. I don't want others to edit my book while they are viewing it. > What is the best way to send people a copy of my book, and they can only > view it? > > Thanks, > Jada Schallhorn > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: How can I waterproof my document
It used to be that you could make something into a .pdf and they would have to spend a lot of time and money to mess with it. Not so, anymore. Linda On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 10:58 PM Richard Detwiler wrote: > Waterproof? You mean print it out and laminate it? I suspect that's not > what you mean ... > > On 6/24/2023 5:48 PM, The Telepath wrote: > > Hello OpenOffice, > > I am wondering how you can waterproof a document on OpenOffice. I am a > > writer and I am trying to send a copy of my book to people who are giving > > me feedback. I don't want others to edit my book while they are viewing > it. > > What is the best way to send people a copy of my book, and they can only > > view it? > > > > Thanks, > > Jada Schallhorn > > > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
