Thank you for this insightful, & informative, statement.
From: CVAlkan <fobe...@enteract.com> Date: Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 9:21 AM Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: PDF Extnension for Libre Office/Writer or Open Office To: users@global.libreoffice.org Re: several of the things Anne-ology talks about: This list is only for programs I have used under Linux that have some of or all the capabilities she talks about. pdfSAM - SAM stands for Split And Merge; the interface is rather user-hostile, but it does a good job of allowing you to grab arbitrary pages from one or multiple documents and get them assembled into a new pdf. pdf Chain - similar, but permits specified pages to be rotated, and allows you to add background stuff (e.g. a transparent image saying "DRAFT") to the output. pdf Mod- similar to the others, and also allows you to change the document properties (edit or remove title, author, keywords, and such things). It also allows rotation of arbitrary pages. pdf-Shuffler - permits you to crop selected pages by percentage (separate spec for top, bottom, and each side - I use this to get pdf files onto my Nook Color with the smallest margins possible to avoid having to keep "stretching" each page while I'm reading). Again, there are some quirks in the user interface, such as how one needs to click the beginning page and end page to set a range - the column layout makes this work somewhat strangely, but you get used to it quickly). As others have already said, pdf is really not similar to other "file formats" in that each page is a separate chunk, although the elements can be manipulated to a certain degree. It's similar to saving a paper copy of the document as a "universal" reference in that no matter how MS or TDF change formats (or like all those dearly departed earlier companies did), you'll still have something that can be printed (although not easily edited) in the future. Maybe... If you choose to embed the fonts used in the original (at least all of the characters in use), this can be quite useful. Sending a pdf to someone is almost guaranteed to permit them to read it without going through all the hoops necessary to convert to another format. Again, mostly... I hope this helps. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org 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