Hybrid PDF is one of the killer features of LibreOffice, but barely promoted and a bit hidden to the user. However, particularly the user experience can be easily improved. Easy Hack improvement of Hybrid PDF No. 1: If you export to a PDF file, you can choose “Create hybrid file” which is cryptic to average users and one of the reasons, why it is unknown to many users. It would be better to rename this to e.g. “Make PDF file fully editable in LibreOffice” or “Embed ODF-file in PDF for full future editing” or “Preserve full editing capacity of PDF file in LibreOffice” or “Create fully in LibreOffice editable PDF file”. Furthermore, the option for hybrid PDFs could be even moved on top of the list of general PDF options in “File” → “Export as PDF” → Tab “General” → “General”, because the feature is more directed to standard users than any of the other features in that list of options.
I cannot see this thing in my newly compiled version, maybe it is already solved in version 3.5? As for 3.4 I see it(installed from deb packages).
Hi Gabor, thanks for looking into this enhancement request. What is different in the newly compiled 3.5? Do you mean that there is no option for Hybrid PDF at all? This could be, because the PDF import (on which hybrid PDF is based on) is handled as extension, maybe?!
(In reply to comment #2) > Hi Gabor, thanks for looking into this enhancement request. > > What is different in the newly compiled 3.5? Do you mean that there is no > option for Hybrid PDF at all? This could be, because the PDF import (on which > hybrid PDF is based on) is handled as extension, maybe?! yes, I haven't installed it as extension just made make dev-install, after installing the extension it's there. I think I found the file to modify now I'll try to recompile this module, and we will see the result. I am going to work on the second patch for .odf.pdf extension also. Thanks for your helpful reply
ok,I am done with new build, the text is rewritten to: "Create LibreOffice fully editable file" soon I am going to place it on the right place, so we can mark this topic as resolved!
Wow! Gabor, thanks a lot.
Reopening for tracking this - so that the patch gets pushed to the repo before being closed. [Please correct me if the patch is already pushed]
Created attachment 49914 [details] Gabor Jenei's patch
The patch fixed the bug, though I made some improvements. pushed to master branch (target version 3.5): http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=de1b819b7e5fe7dfcb9a84b8fe380c60f981dcaf http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/help/commit/?id=260b7c155537741fd6100eb88090b649c9904f02
Created attachment 50344 [details] Additional patch that changes the description again etc. Hi. This patch does the following: * change the caption for the check box to "Embed OpenDocument file" * add a descriptive line underneath ("Makes this document easily editable in LibreOffice") * since the hybrid PDF function depends on Java/PDF Import extension, all elements are now moved up on non-Java builds etc. (this is not done in a terribly clever fashion, though) Screenshots below.
Created attachment 50346 [details] Screenshot with both patches