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Re:LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6 by jokoon on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @06:26PM (#37229381)
I learned that I can just add a picture in a PDF with libreoffice draw, which is a thing that cannot be done with pdf.js yet.
Re:LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6 by ryukoposting on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @08:03PM (#37230212)
Draw is a super underappreciated piece of software imo. It's not quite Publisher, not quite Inkskape, but something in between. I'm not sure what people use it for, but I used it in college to make diagrams for all sorts of projects. LibreOffice's equation input is great, too.
Re:LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6 by HKH2 on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @11:49PM (#37231628)
That's good to know. I like Inkscape but its page handling still needs a bit more work.
Re:LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6 by ryukoposting on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @08:08AM (#37234628)
I'd describe Draw's page handling as "intuitive," if not "sophisticated." You won't get Inkscape's most powerful features, but MS Office-like "stupid simplicity" is the result.
Re:LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6 by FinnKuhn on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @02:52PM (#37240518)
My preferred Open-Source-Software for diagrams is draw.io (https://app.diagrams.net/). Works great, locally and online and runs on pretty much any system while offering everything I need and allowing a crazy amount of customisation.
Re:LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6 by douglasmoore on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @01:38AM (#37232235)
No kidding. I wish I knew that a week ago.
Re:LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6 by davidgerard on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @07:16AM (#37234194)
LibreOffice Draw is an excellent and very useful PDF editor. Just make very sure you have all the same fonts!
Re:LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6 by arthur2e5 on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @08:49AM (#37235011)
LibreOffice has pretty cool support for working with PDFs in general. (Tangential) There's a "hybrid PDF" export option in LibreOffice that lets you embed ODF metadata into the PDF file. When you open the exported file in LibreOffice again you get everything back -- dynamic fields, header/footers, custom style sets, etc.
Re:LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6 by oniony on Thursday August 24, 2023 @12:12PM (#37250640)
There's an add image option in pdf.js when I use the (modern browser) demo.

Edit: added an image, saved the PDF and it does indeed include the image I added.