

For example… How do you recognize hybrid PDFs? However, if you start thinking about the implications, things become more interesting and deserve more looking into. If this were the whole story, there would be no need to write another post about it. This lets you distribute “read-only” documents that look exactly as you intended, but are still completely editable if necessary. This week I’ll look in detail to some implications of the sixth feature, Hybrid PDFs.ĭefining and creating such files with either OpenOffice and LibreOffice is, as explained in that other post, really simple: select File | Export as PDF, tick the “Embed OpenDocument file” box, and you’ll get a PDF document that embeds a complete copy of the original OpenDocument file. My last post lists seven great, little-known features of OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Here's a tip for sorting out the difference. If you have many PDF files to manage, it may become difficult to tell which are uneditable and which are hybrid (editable).

OpenOffice and LibreOffice: How to manage hybrid PDFs
