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cowboy · Posted: Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:24 Post subject: libreoffice update

Libreoffice has become the "go to" office suite for many, if not most, Linux users. While the current version on their site can be downloaded and applied (maybe, haven't tried it yet) as .deb files on our Lucid puppies, the simplest way for most users to get Libreoffice is as a .sfs file on the official repos through the PPM. Currently, the latest version is 3.3.1. I would request that a newer version be uploaded to the repos, perhaps the final 3.4 version. That would give many of us an updated version of this crucial application in the simplest way possible. If at all possible, thanks so much.

Lobster · Posted: Sun 18 Mar 2012, 21:00 Post subject: Re: libreoffice update

Henry · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 822 Location: Oregon USA

majorfoo · Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 444 Location: Wish I knew

Got the downloader .pet and get LibreOffice 3.5.1 with help, spell check, etc.
Very fast easy d/l using DSL.
Created the SFS and then using SFSInstall, I installed to full hard drive installation on ext4 partition.

Everything works except base which requires JRE and I do not have it loaded. At present, I do not need base and will continiue using the other programs.

One thing I noticed, this version opens writer, spreadsheet, presentation, etc much, much faster than my windows 7 machine using the same version=3.51.2

My linux pc is HP Pentium 4, 2.8ghz cpu and 2gb memory

My windows pc is HP Pravillon, dm4-2070us, I5-2410m Processor with turbo boost and 6gb memory.

Linux version opens applications 2-3 times faster than WIn 7

bones01 · Joined: 11 Aug 2008 Posts: 368 Location: Melbourne, Aus

Jasper · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 1014 Location: England

Hi,

Using Slacko 5.3.1 and loading LibreOffice 3.3 sfs as required and putting Quickstarter in my System Tray takes about 20", but then loading any of the appiications seems almost instantaneous and with 597MB of RAM I can have Quickstarter constantly available.

My regards

Roy · Joined: 31 Dec 2008 Posts: 441

Henry · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 822 Location: Oregon USA

Open it in Draw.
Edit it.
Export it as pdf.

disciple · Posted: Tue 20 Mar 2012, 05:50 Post subject:

In other words you can't truly edit it. You can import it, and then rexport it as a new PDF. What sort of editing do you want to do to the PDF?

Henry · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 822 Location: Oregon USA

Good morning, disciple,

Roy · Joined: 31 Dec 2008 Posts: 441

Thanks for the information!

I've often needed a way to add a signature to a PDF without the added hardware of a printer or scanner, hence my interest in this feature.

Guess I'll have to wait for an updated SFS (sfs3?) from somebody that works with the 4-series pups (Fluppy 13 or the just released Legacy-OS-4-Mini) to try this out.

-Roy

disciple · Posted: Tue 20 Mar 2012, 16:02 Post subject:

Henry · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 822 Location: Oregon USA

disciple · Posted: Tue 20 Mar 2012, 17:35 Post subject:

Pdfedit is for editing the actual content that is on the page, similar to what is described using Libreoffice in the quote from Jack above. It sounds like the Libreoffice method might be a lot easier for this, but I'm guessing if you only wanted to edit one page in a large document you might want to put just that page through libreoffice, and then combine it with the other pages using something like pdfshuffer.
Pdfshuffler is not for editing the content that is on the page - it is for rearranging pages, splitting, merging, rotating, deleting, cropping...
There are two other programs very similar to Pdfshuffler: Final Page (Written in Vala, but it looks like it is unmaintained) and Pdfmod (requires the Mono bloatware; has some extra features such as creating bookmarks).

Henry · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 822 Location: Oregon USA