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You can change the page settings to a custom size instead of A4, it's still annoying that you need to define it in some way but at least you only need to do it ones and not for every new change you make. (as long as your image size doesn't change in the edits).



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Sadly I can't vote! During lockdown working from home, only a few months earlier, I had purchased a 5 machine licence of SoftMaker Office for just under 24. This meant I could put say SoftMaker Office on two Windows machines, two GNU/Linux machines, and one on a Mac. The workflow was much better than with MS Office and I could also save to pdf. The Windows version has an old but fully functioning MathType the current version of which costs 69 per year per machine. It's called Equation Editor in SoftMaker Office but is much better than the Windows equivalent which is basically a cut down version of MathType. The two shortfalls with SoftMaker Office were font spacing which used % instead of points which meant typing a line of text in LibreOffice Writer, applying the font spacing Pts needed for student with low vision, saving the document as a .docx file then open up in TextMaker 2018 to find out the % value of the point spacing. The other issue was lack of image compression - this is where LibreOffice scores highly, even over MS Word 2019 on a works machine the compression function would not hold because of Network Office Templates which didn't meet our service needs. LibreOffice also scored highly with its Draw application. I was working on a mock A Level physics paper when my hard drive started to fail. After installing replacement drive and Devuan 3 I was able to use LibreOffice Draw to view the corrupted pdf and extract the images I had originally modified in Inkscape. Only Office is good online and on the Desktop. So my ranking would be:


Personally, I prefer OnlyOffice and WPS Office for linux, but recent versions of WPS Office are bugged.

The only problem I have with LibreOffice is that it does not have a light/dark mode toggle. The dark mode of libreoffice has issues with the tabbed layout which I use because I am a MS Office migrant. I like the light mode better anyway, so even if dark mode did not have any issues I would still prefer to use it in the light mode.


Still SoftMaker Office for me as the only Office Suite compatible with MS Office during lockdown. There wasn't much call for spreadsheet work apart from using PlanMaker in creating Student Timetables and saved to .xlsx format. I did have to advise base that some School Departments needed to upgrade their .ppt files to .pptx as the former would not open correctly in SoftMaker Presentations. The Ribbon in TextMaker was much better laid out than MSOffice, you can actually delete a table in text maker, extracted text from a Table in Okular would default to Basic Roman but not a problem. Having made the desired font for the document all that needed to be done was highlight all the cells then press Ctrl+ Space and Voila! The text is instantly transformed to the document's default font. The other neat item is that shapes could have text within them. A boon when creating phonetic flash cards for early learners. So much time was saved in document production.


If you want to write your own educational text. For exampel about 100 pages. Many pages only notesheets and you want to change the notesheets. You to import again the pdfs. I have done this all the years before. Not very comfortable. More automatism would be nice.






But there is another way: Merging Score-PDFs into a LO-exported PDF. So while working in LO you don't see the content of the PDF but only a placeholder. When you export to PDF The score-PDF gets merged in.

This requires the external commandline tool PDFtk installed and the LibreOffice document that you get here:

LibreOfficeSongbookArchitect (LOSA)



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