Comment on LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats

• Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Don’t use that proprietary format ! Use PDF instead !”

  PDF is also an issue.

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  • Sv443@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    PDF can be opened anywhere, that’s my point.

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    • Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      * Only if you dont use the many still proprietary extensions of PDF I suppose.

      Anyway I’m not sure following the Adobe standard in our institutions is the smartest move.

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      • Sv443@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Not solely, but since sooooo many documents are already only available in PDF, you need to support it for backwards compat alone, plus all the people who just wouldn’t migrate their data to a new format because the old one still works for them.

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  • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There are often also accessibility issues with PDF files depending on how they were created.

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    • recursivethinking@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      For best results, print your word doc and scan it back in on a flatbet scanner. Fun fact you don’t even need to keep the piece of paper square to the scanner.

      Or just take a picture of your monitor and text it.

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      • skeptomatic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Hire a barbershop quartet to sing it to them.

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      • TheMadCodger@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Unrelated anecdote, my brother’s then wife post a picture of them on Facebook. Our aunt saw it, took a picture of her monitor with her phone, went to the store to have them print the photo out on photo paper, and then mailed it to my brother.

        So he got his original photo back, but at a greatly reduced quality and with monitor glare added!

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  • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Do you have a better idea, pal?

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    • Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This is a conversation about the issue of proprietary formats in our institutions.

      And I think PDF is a problem in that regard. It’s not fully open and the format still can break. Forms in particular are still very problematics. Forms are very useful in institutions…

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• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In college my professor wouldn’t accept pdfs for assignments because it guess he couldn’t check the metadata or make comments or something.

  So I literally had to download MS office just to submit assignments in their format…

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  • b_tr3e@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There are some people who míght learn from a ransomware attack. Only if it personally hits them, of course.

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I don’t know enough to understand the connection. Can you please explain?

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      • b_tr3e@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Ransomware attack are successful mostly against MS Active Directory and Ourlook based setups.

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  • Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Damn, I was gonna say just use web version, but they do often have missing features compared to app, so I understand why you had to download it…

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The web version is even worse! It’s all cloud-based, and you need a subscription unless your University pays for a license.

      The only reason to use it would be to write things in Libre and then copy/paste them into MS and manually fix all the formatting.

      I hated it, because all the professors could just smugly say “You know you have free access to Office 365 with your student email, right?”

      That’s not the fucking point! I don’t give a shit if it’s free, I don’t want to use a fucking microsoft product, especially one that’s cloud-based, when there’s a perfectly good open-source alternative that I can run locally on my own hardware.

      Just one of the many problems with the corporatization, commodification, and enshittification of education. If the focus was on learning and academic freedom, FOSS solutions would be encouraged. But no, you’re forced to use proprietary software, because “reasons” capitalism…

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      • pycorax@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The web version is even worse! It’s all cloud-based, and you need a subscription unless your University pays for a license.

        You don’t actually need a subscription for the cloud web version actually.

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