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FOSS Microsoft Office for Linux (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Looking for an alternative to Microsoft Office for the Linux.

I've already tried:

LibreOffice (It doesn't have the same experience as Microsoft's apps.)
OnlyOffice Desktop Editors (I like it)

What else would you recommend?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

That's monstrous. When I send a PDF I don't want it to be editable, if I wanted an editable format I'd use an editable format. Exporting to PDF is supposed to be a digital equivalent to printing.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Exporting to PDF is supposed to be a digital equivalent to printing.

It really isn't. Even without this feature (that I'd never heard of before) it is a format that is very easy to edit.

If you need PDFs to be tamperproof, you can however digitally sign them. (And then the recipient needs your public key to verify).

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It sounds opt-in.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I saved many many documents as pdf via libre office and never encountered this feature, so I'd say so too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Which is why it's optional I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Then don't embed the document in the pdf. Easy.