Hi :) I think i still have a few machines on 3.5.7 but most have now upgraded to something like 4.2.7. That might have happened when i upgraded Ubuntu from 12.04 to 14.04 LTS. It might be possible to ask your distro's package maintainers if they would be kind enough to make a more recent version of LibreOffice available in their repos. They are usually a fairly friendly bunch (except in Slackware where it's allegedly just one very busy person (where "bunch" no longer applies but "friendly" does)) Regards from Tom :)
On 10 February 2015 at 16:43, V Stuart Foote <vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu> wrote: > 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: 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 > -- 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
