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

[M Paul Webb]

I just got an e-mail I wanted to save. I have a PDF printer in Linux. It
might be default, as I do not remember installing it. So I printed as a
PDF. Then, I opened it in LibreOffice, modified, and saved with a name
change. Linux is nice stuff.

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 12:47 PM, M Paul Webb <m.paulwebb at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just made a PDF in LibreOffice. I was able to reload it and modify it,
> but I had to change the file name to save the modified version. Then, I
> opened it in Windows with PagePlus. I was able to modify and save with a
> name change. Then, I opened in LibreOffice a 71 page PDF I just made for
> the Copyright office with PagePlus, that was secured. I had to use a
> password, according to the security features I had set, and the cover page
> lost the graphic, and the specialized fonts I used were lost, but
> substituted, though they were embedded. LibreOffice has PDF security
> settings. So, you can use a PDF format and make changes between users  or
> lock out modifications as you want.
>
> 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.
>>>
>>> --
>>> David L. Willson
>>> Teacher, Engineer, Evangelist
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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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>>> Chuck Downing
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>>>
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