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

[Paul B]

You might consider using a cloud service like Dropbox to share the files,
that way the permissions are only determined by the settings in the dropbox
shared folder.  I only mention dropbox in particular because I personally
use this to make sure files are synchronized for me between osx 10.10,
windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.10.  It also eliminates the need to use email
attachments.
On Apr 2, 2015 3:15 PM, "Chris Fedde" <chris at fedde.us> wrote:

> Modern PDF turns out to be more of a wrapper format than it used to be.
> Once upon a time about the only content you'd find in a PDF was EPS.
> That's pretty much still the state of things in Linux land.
>
> PDF never was an open standard.  It is just a de facto one.   Adobe owns
> it and continues to work to ensure that this stays true.
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:52 AM, M Paul Webb <m.paulwebb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>> This is a good time for a r3VOLution.
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> 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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