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BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days agoWhat if I don’t want to spend several hundred dollars per year to use a proprietary program that doesn’t run on my computer just to look at some documents?
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BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days agoWhat if I don’t want to spend several hundred dollars per year to use a proprietary program that doesn’t run on my computer just to look at some documents?
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Open Office? Libre Office?
BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
Are fine, but not 100% compatible with all Office files and very heavyweight for viewing a document.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
PDF is still shit, despite being open. Even a “minimal” viewer like mupdf has to carry a 100MB library with it. Interpreting them is arcane knowledge.
BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Oh I agree, I’m not saying that PDF is some sort of document format perfection. But it is a fully open one with a spec that fits in 250 pages, as opposed to docx’s 7500(!!) page spec with undocumented binary blobs mixed in.