16 Apr 2024

Quick tip: creating “hybrid” PDF files in LibreOffice

Posted in LibreOffice, Tips & Tricks By Mike Saunders On April 16, 2024

Screenshot of PDF export dialog

Here’s a LibreOffice feature you may not know about: when exporting a PDF, the “Hybrid PDF” option embeds the original file. Then anyone with a PDF reader can view the file – and LibreOffice users can edit it too.

Learn more about this feature here

Comments

  1. By Adolfo Jayme Barrientos

    This is one of my favorite clever LibreOffice features! And it’s a marvellous thing about the PDF format specification, too — I wonder who was the first bright mind to think about embedding an ODF into a PDF 🙂