<div dir="ltr">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. <div><br></div><div>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.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:52 AM, M Paul Webb <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:m.paulwebb@gmail.com" target="_blank">m.paulwebb@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Linux doesn't have an application for creating PDFs that can be modified and that can modify? That seems strange.<div><br></div><div>(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.)</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Charles W Downing <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chuckdowning@earthlink.net" target="_blank">chuckdowning@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font size="+1">Thanks, David.<br>
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<div>On 04/01/2015 11:30 AM, David L.
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<div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000">Do they need to be able to
modify your documents?<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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This is a good time for a r3VOLution.<span name="x"></span><br>
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<font size="+1">Gang,<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Help!<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
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