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Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 1 day ago
LibeOffice Writer opens pdf’s just fine. Just save it as odt afterwards. Probably can’t do complex pdf’s this way, but in that case you shouldn’t really convert the pdf anyway as it will almost always loose some of the formatting or layout in the process.
Microw@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 1 day ago
Hm, it might not be as useful as I thought. Just tried it. It seems it wants to save them as “drawings”, because even though I chose to open in LibreOffice Writer, it opens it in LibreOffice Draw. My bad.
petri@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
Maybe they could improve this in the future but this and formatting not maintaining on opening PDFs is why many resort to other tools, StirlingPDF is opensource so I guess they could try finding similar solutions to opening PDF as is with all the formatting. You can force open with LibreOffice Writer but the formatting will be all messed up
petri@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
its not as effective as StirlingPDF, people using iLovePDF usually need it because they have to edit a PDF with customized footer/upper part of the page and just opening with LibreOffice Writer definitely will not maintain that. keeping the content and format are two different things, so if you are just opening a simple PDF without much formatting then yes maybe you dont need something like StirlingPDF and just directly opening with LibreOffice Writer will suffice