Microsoft Office on FreeBSD?

A few years ago – around 2007, maybe – I was involved with a conference where the organisers invested in a professionally-produced CD-ROM for content in PDF. Proceedings, IIRC.

Almost as much as I was impressed by the professionalism: I was shocked at the variety of approaches that were necessary, on a single medium with a single format, to cater for the peculiarities of various Adobe readers that were commonplace at the time.
 
PDF again.

Example 19 in the FreeBSD Handbook, Adobe Acrobat and various other apps lose the indents in the code when copying and pasting. Discussions elsewhere … I don't expect a fix.
 
kpedersen said:
I find OpenOffice so much faster these days than LibreOffice. I already maintain private copies of Gimp 2.4, Blender 2.49b and will almost certainly be picking up OpenOffice if it is dropped from ports.

I only use a fraction of features of OpenOffice so don't really care what new gimmicks LibreOffice might have introduced. Its overkill and slow. Did I mention its slow? ;)
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This is off topic, but I'm starting to give up on Gimp (2.10, anyway.) I just had two OOMs from it, trying to use some basic features. I have 8GB of memory... I should be able to do image editing!

Would you be open to sharing your Gimp 2.4 port? I'd love to see if it cuts down on the memory usage.
 
hhartzer said:
This is off topic, but I'm starting to give up on Gimp (2.10, anyway.) I just had two OOMs from it, trying to use some basic features. I have 8GB of memory... I should be able to do image editing!
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Ugh, painful. Considering that Photoshop 4.x in many ways had more functionality and could run in ~12MB on Windows 3.1!

hhartzer said:
Would you be open to sharing your Gimp 2.4 port? I'd love to see if it cuts down on the memory usage.
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Sure. My Blender 2.4x is publicly accessible but since Microsoft GitHub started requiring a phone number, I now just run everything through SVN+SSH which is a little locked down. I have been meaning to for a while but this weekend I will aim to get the Gimp repo mirrored onto my codeberg account and will PM you the link (if not please remind me!)
 
kpedersen said:
I find OpenOffice so much faster these days than LibreOffice. I already maintain private copies of Gimp 2.4, Blender 2.49b and will almost certainly be picking up OpenOffice if it is dropped from ports.

I only use a fraction of features of OpenOffice so don't really care what new gimmicks LibreOffice might have introduced. Its overkill and slow. Did I mention its slow? ;)
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Sorry to reply to such an old post but can anyone tell me what LibreOffice features are missing in OpenOffice?
 
fmc000 said:
Sorry to reply to such an old post but can anyone tell me what LibreOffice features are missing in OpenOffice?
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Its generally a good question. Whilst I am tempted to say "nothing of worth ;)" I generally just notice a few improvements here and there (due to the more active feature development). For example the docx compatibility is better and the table management is "different". I also recall that LibreOffice bundles in more consumption of GPU features but can't find very good sources.

Some info here (not very technical unfortunately): https://computertechnicians.au/libreoffice-vs-openoffice-who-wins-in-2022/
 
kpedersen said:
But I am not sure about reliably reading / importing them. I heven't seen many tools manage that well for decades.
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LibreOffice Draw can edit them, but the major problem with pdf is that adobe is completely ignoring the format standard and uses proprietary, non-standardized and even completely outdated formats, effectively making their pdf incompatible with standard-conformant pdf files and readers/editors.... and sadly adobe is what the majority of clueless idio windows users are using to create pdf...
 
sko said:
the major problem with pdf is that adobe is completely ignoring the format standard and uses proprietary, non-standardized and even completely outdated formats, effectively making their pdf incompatible with standard-conformant pdf files and readers/editors.... and sadly adobe is what the majority of clueless idio windows users are using to create pdf...
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I don't disagree. And whats worse is that Adobe's products have now reached a level of enshitification that means they are pretty much out of action for professional work too. The only good PDF tool I have used is pretty much Acrobat Exchange 3.x on Windows 3.1.
 
fmc000 said:
Thanks everyone. I will try it later today and, hopefully, I'll have no further questions to ask.
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Actually, even on Windows, people are ditching Adobe's stuff, and Adobe even got sued by Uncle Sam's Federal Trade Commission for deceptive sales practices and making it impossible to cancel a cloud subscription. Even on Windows, if you use Edge, you can do some basic stuff with PDF docs like mark them up, edit them, and stuff, without having to resort to 'official' stuff that Adobe is trying to peddle.

Well, in case of cloud subscription, you can try to simply not pay, and see if that gets Adobe's attention to the point that they do actually let go. Of course, that does mean ditching Adobe pretty completely, even if that means uninstalling the product, reinstalling the OS, or getting a different SSD. ?
 
fmc000 said:
Does openoffice reads/writes PDFs? …
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1729712960189.pngLinked from Document Foundation bug 152627: LO as PDF editor.pdf


1729713089625.pngAlso:
 
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