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LibreOffice wee (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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Now. Why am I wrong for Libre

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[–] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I must be the odd one. I find PDFs easy to use, convenient, easy to edit, and manageable. The business world relies quite a bit on PDF. The whole point of PDFs is that they can easily be printed, signed, be fillable forms, or stored as a single file where the size can be adjusted to fit storage requirements. The only issue I have with them is so many editors all want money for the ability to edit them whereas other document formats have software like LibreOffice that are free. I get you’re probably good at markdown, but the rest of the business world that relies on PDFs and can barely handle them or open a web browser. Their brains would melt if they couldn’t simply open or print a single file.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Alternatively, if the business world can already handle PDF, then they can surely handle markdown. They're already easy to open, and just like a PDF is easy (???) to edit as long as you have the right software, Markdown's easy to get predictable printing out of even with the right* software. I think the PDFs are probably slightly easier for forms, but that's about it. Everything else is just a matter of familiarity, and imo, it's easier to get familiar with Markdown.

    *If this somehow doesn't work out, they could surely make do with a standard print preview.

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  • [+] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    No. I simply find them easy to use. Maybe it’s because familiarity, but I see nothing inherently difficult with saving a document as PDF, and making them form-fills with the right software isn’t too hard. When someone is sent a contract or something they tend to be used to looking at what they would see on paper, PDFs tend to be what they’re used to and very basic WYSIWYG, so people don’t have to think too hard about it.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    You find PDFs easy to edit? Also, there's no reason why you can't make a single HTML file the way you make a single PDF file. It's not done in the web for organization and optimization reasons, but it's still possible.

    Also, what do you mean about resizable? Open a web browser, adjust the width. Look at the text. Watch as it moves. Do that with a PDF, absolutely not the same. PDFs have a static size.

    Form filling with HTML is easy too. https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp

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