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LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in (blog.documentfoundation.org)
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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 101 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The headline doesn't match the article, but indeed onlyoffice it's not real open source.

In my language onlyoffice has several typos. Went to GitHub to submit a PR and... there are no translations to translate.

I open an issue and they tell me to send the fixes to someone by email. I send them, they are ignored and 5 years later it's still with the annoying typos.

This is a program where they pretend to be open only for marketing but they aren't actually open

[–] tackleberry@thelemmy.club 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

that's why you should use LibreOffice

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

As soon as Writer allows for a static standard scroll bar that doesn't auto-hide, I will. Call me irrational, but I cannot use an application based around scrolling with no real scroll bar.

[–] tackleberry@thelemmy.club 2 points 12 hours ago

You can use "pg up" and "pg dn" to scroll. That's what I use and it also helps that my laptop has a touchscreen so I have no complaints about scrolling around my work in LibreOffice

[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 1 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

I use OnlyOffice for PDFs since it can set a default zoom level. LibreOffice can't, which it just stupid.

I use LibreOffice for other stuff though.

[–] tackleberry@thelemmy.club 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

you can get a dedicated PDF viewer. I use my system PDF viewer and it works better than Adobe PDF I have been using for ages. This one actually makes reading PDFs bearable in the dark

[–] sonofearth@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Even your web browser is a decent PDF reader. Also LibreOffice Draw shows PDF pretty well and you can also edit it to some extent.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That sounds like it should be relatively easy to implement.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works -1 points 17 hours ago

Relatively easy to implement

Adobe format

Pick one.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 4 points 22 hours ago

Sure about that? I can't check now, but I think there's an option in the advanced Export to... window.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 day ago

So, like 'open'AI...