![]() In contrast, I could not find SoftMaker’s enterprise offering. If you are an enterprise, you can opt for LibreOffice professional support that provides you with priority technical support and certification programs to provide your team with the necessary training to use/manage LibreOffice. And you get more features out of the box. With LibreOffice, you can get free help from the community of fellow active users. You can only avail of these benefits with SoftMaker Office with a premium subscription. In contrast, FreeOffice suite is limited to:Īdditionally, FreeOffice cuts back on features like Spell checking, synonym dictionaries, tabs, macros, and free technical support. LibreOffice gets an advantage here, considering it provides a variety of programs and features for free. Even if you are not a Windows user, it looks polished and provides a good experience for free. The user experience makes you feel right at home if you are a Windows-first user. SoftMaker’s FreeOffice gets an edge for its variety of user interface options and provides a modern user experience comparatively. Unless you want a user interface similar to/close to Microsoft Office, it should be plenty good. The screenshots above show how LibreOffice looks on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I believe that LibreOffice’s layout can use improvements, providing more clarity to the available tools/icons on the main screen. But it keeps up with modern standards by a good margin. Sure, it may not be a fancy user interface. It takes a simple and clean approach to make things aesthetically pleasing. The other aspects were already covered by answers above.įillable.pdf (30.LibreOffice has improved its user experience over the years. You should consider to add something like "(concerning export to pdf-forms)" Your question mainly is about export to pdf. You can open it with your reader, and most likely change the fields. The attached example was made "on the fly" with LibO, and the fields were filled after the export to pdf using "Foxit Reader". If you want to do so, you will need to know a lot more than you have asked for. Forms are basically made to connect to a database. You or your clients need to use one supporting the filling. ![]() The next step will be done by any brand of pdf software ( a "Reader"). OOXML formatted files, you should be better off with LibreOffice. If you need compatibility to MS sellware or rentware, and in specific if you also need to work with. I am looking for a tool that can create fillable PDF forms from a MS Word or Excel file. Jennifer Murphy wrote:Are OpenOffice and LibreOffice two different products? How do they differ? OpenOffice releases tiny little updates once a year and recently it had to fix updates because they were broken because there are not even enough voluteers to test the entire product on each supported platform.Ĭontrary to that, LibreOffice can get on someones nerves because its quality management is not good enough for the pace of development and quite obviously, there is a group of people who constantly mess up the menues with never ending "good ideas". SInce 2015 it has become clear that OpenOffice is dying under that roof because all relevant developers and other volunteers switched over to the more attractive project. OpenOffice found a new home under the roof of the Apache foundation. OpenOffice 3.3 and LibreOffice 3.3 were identical products except from the blue/green branding. LibreOffice was forked from OpenOffice 3.3 because OpenOffice was about to become homeless.
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