[clue] File Permissions with Linux Mint 17 and LibreOffice 1.4.2.7

[M Paul Webb]

Linux doesn't have an application for creating PDFs that can be modified
and that can modify? That seems strange.

(However, I do PDFs in my virtual box, using Serif PagePlus in Windows. I
save directly to the Linux OS. (Publishing is just the one thing I still do
in Windows). Then I can really finesse the settings -- like auto fit text,
and 11.25 fonts. The virtual box works well, like an single OS with Ubuntu.
And as much as I like Evince, Adobe Acrobat Reader does display better and
makes a better impression on the readers. So I have to test on Adobe, as
that is what most people use.)

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Charles W Downing <
chuckdowning at earthlink.net> wrote:

>  Thanks, David.
>
>
> On 04/01/2015 11:30 AM, David L. Willson wrote:
>
> Do they need to be able to modify your documents?
>
> If not, consider exporting PDF. They will get a high-fidelity, but
> read-only "printed" version of your doc. That's what I do, most of the time.
>
> If they need to edit your documents, consider using a more primitive
> format. Rather than .docx or .xlsx, use .doc, .rtf, .html, .txt, .tdv and
> so on. Maximize the ratio of information to decoration.
>
> Consider having another person, someone that can send documents everyone
> can use, originate all the documents, so that you're editing their format,
> rather than them editing yours.
>
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> David L. Willson
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> This is a good time for a r3VOLution.
>
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>
> Gang,
>
> I have been a "clue" for about 15 years.  I am on a Board made up of Mac
> and Windows users.  I need to share files with all of them.  However, when
> I save a LibreOffice Writer or Calc file as docx or xslx, a couple of them
> cannot open it.  One of them claims to have Windows 8.x, while the other
> has a Mac laptop.
>
> I have spent the better part of today trying various options to save a
> file from Calc because of various "default" permissions settings using
> umask and other things, as suggested from Google searchs.  Nothing seems to
> work.
>
> My problem seems to be that I sometimes forget to change the permissions
> of a file before I attach it to an e-mail.  Even then, this week, the Mac
> user has been unable to open a spreadsheet, possibly because her program
> has some default setting.
>
> Help!
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Chuck Downing
> Highlands Ranch, CO USA
>
>
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