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#21

I don't have money to pay to have it fixed (one of the reasons I try to
use open source/free software),

That should be the last reason to choose Open Source Software… I can
understand it, since it was the same for me in the far 90's, but sooner or
later you should go deeper and try understanding the principles behind OSS.

I'm not anyone's beta tester. <G>

So you'd want a perfect product, without paying money nor time to commit

somehow (just like beta testing or translating or whatever else commitment)?

Which is why I've just started trying FreeOffice from Softmaker. Do I
know for a fact it will do what I need? No, that's why I'm trying it out.
<G> If FreeOffice doesn't do it, there are others to try. :slight_smile:

Well, maybe you'll find a free "product" that suites your needs, possibly
not open, so that you'll be locked in its own encoding cage.

Please respect people of the community and avoid insulting with your
requirements about taking without giving anything back.

#22

This is really strange… Please try using "evince" as reader and let us know.

#23

I don't have money to pay to have it fixed (one of the reasons I try to
use open source/free software),

That should be the last reason to choose Open Source Software… I can
understand it, since it was the same for me in the far 90's, but sooner or
later you should go deeper and try understanding the principles behind OSS.

I'm retired, and thanks to the economic crash, I now have to watch the money spent, plus work part time.

I also volunteer for a local social services agency, and I often refurbished donated computers which are then given to people who need but can't afford a computer. Many of these people are essentially computer illiterate. So I need software that I can have faith in will cause them the least amount of trouble.

The principles of OSS are not the issue at my end, although it appears people seem to think so. Performance and trusting things needed will be fixed are. :slight_smile:

I'm not anyone's beta tester. <G>

So you'd want a perfect product, without paying money nor time to commit

somehow (just like beta testing or translating or whatever else commitment)?

I don't expect any of it to be perfect. But I don't have the time to identify a problem, track down the cause or believed cause, and then file a report.

Which is why I've just started trying FreeOffice from Softmaker. Do I
know for a fact it will do what I need? No, that's why I'm trying it out.
  <G> If FreeOffice doesn't do it, there are others to try. :slight_smile:

Well, maybe you'll find a free "product" that suites your needs, possibly
not open, so that you'll be locked in its own encoding cage.

Do you know how to fix your car? TV? Refrigerator? You're locked into that "cage" too. Maybe I will find something that is what I'm looking for. I've sure bought enough stuff over the years looking for something that does what I want it to do. I might end up liking FreeOffice enough I'll buy the paid version.

Please respect people of the community and avoid insulting with your
requirements about taking without giving anything back.

If you don't consider pointing out the opposing and incompatible viewpoints within the LO community as giving back, that's something I have no control over.

#24

Philip Jackson wrote:

I use an external PDF writer for some documents where LO fails to
convert vector formats correctly.
That said, if I use the external converter I loose all my cross
referencing and TOC links that LO does very well in my opinion.
Steve

I have used export to pdf in LO Writer and always had a good pdf copy
but the TOC links never work in the pdf version. I've tried the
different options under the links tab in the export to pdf dialogue but
can't find any difference whatever the options selected.

I'm using LO 4.2.8.2 as supplied by UbuntuStudio 1404. For reading the
pdf's, I use Okular.

Does the use/performance of TOC links in the pdf depend on the reader ?

Quite possibly, since the reader has to interpret the links, and perform the action of moving to the appropriate page when you click on them.

Having said that, I just looked at a PDF I exported from LibreOffice 4.4 (rather an old version) a couple of weeks ago, and the TOC links do not work in Adobe Reader X. Exporting the file to PDF again, the links DO work. It seems that if I open the file in read-only mode (I'd set the read-only file property on the file) and export as PDF, the links DO work, but if I click the banner to "Edit Document" and export to PDF from edit mode, the links DON'T work. Possibly related to:
   https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49568

All the PDF export settings were the same in both cases:
- General
   - Range: All
   - Images: JPEG, 90%
   - Archive PDF/A-1a
   - Export bookmarks
- Initial View
   - Panes: Page only
   - Magnification: Default
   - Page Layout: Default
- User Interface
   - Display document title
   - Bookmarks: All bookmark levels
- Links
   - (Nothing selected; ticking all options made no difference)
Other options I haven't mentioned were not ticked

Mark.

#25

Thank you to all who replied. The problem was solved by a kind reply
offline by Cley. I had not known about the Browse mode in Okular, my
pdf reader.

Not a LO problem at all but down to incomplete familiarity with my pdf
reader.

Philip

#26

+1 ...

PG ..