you can even rotate a PDF without having to pay for a subscription. i’m looking at you, adobe acrobat.
Draw is an amazing pdf editor for basic stuffs.
Firefox also has PDF editing abilities
Yeah Draw is really powerful mut messes up PDFs way too often. Firefox has the best WYSIWYG editor for PDFs, KDEs Okular is a bit worse in text inserting but powerful too.
I was thinking more in deep editing like texts, pictures, etc. It’s what I call the basic stuffs. It’s not Adobe level but more than fine for the vast majority.
“Compatible” with Microsoft Office, just don’t expect for your colleagues to be able to open the document in Microsoft Office after you edited it in LibreOffice.
Edit: Don’t expect your colleagues to be able to open it without the layout being broken.
LibreOffice is compatible with Microsoft’s OOXML spec. They sold every suite on it in the nearly 20 years ago to stop fines from the EU. They sold competing suites on it instead of using anything else available.
Microsoft however never actually fully supported their own spec and will save as “OOXML Transition” or whatever they call it now because they’ve been in ‘transition’ for nearly 20 years but still have proprietary blobs inside of it. You can however make MS Office save in OOXML Strict which is supposed to be compliant to the now ISO spec that LibreOffice actually supports.
This isn’t LibreOffice’s fault.
It really depends on the document. I’ve never had a issue personally but when I heard about issues its normally with specific elements.
Microsoft doesn’t follow there own spec but with each libreoffice release they fix the issues created by Microsoft
Have you used it lately? Broken layouts don’t happen for me very often in the last few years (I work in an office with libreoffice/word used beside each other daily).
as long as you save it as a compatible .doc .docx or something, it should work. obviously word can’t open a .odt file.
Word can in fact open odt files. It was added quite a long time ago. Don’t know how good the compatibility is, though
If you value MS office compatibility over all else, OnlyOffice is a better choice. I still use LibreOffice for PDFs, though.
Editing PDFs
For everyone wanting to do that:
- Don’t. PDFs are made for printing and viewing. If possible, edit Text documents not PDFs.
- For merging, removing, rotating, rearranging pages: PDFarranger, really stable and awesome tool even for 500+ pages
- For adding Text or marking: Firefox, then Okular. Okular Flatpak has full portal support (does not need any filesystem permission)
- For censoring stuff: GIMP. Just marking with black is not secure, you need to edit the image! If it is text, use Libreoffice Draw
- Adding Signatures: Okular, Firefox (I think?)
- For actually changing stuff in the PDF: Libreoffice Draw
