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. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-and-PDFs-Again-tp4139633p4139641.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
