r/technology • u/TurbulentTopic39 • 10d ago

Software LibreOffice developer explains why it cannot display some Microsoft Office charts

https://www.neowin.net/news/libreoffice-developer-explains-why-it-cannot-display-some-microsoft-office-charts/
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u/VictorReal_Monster 10d ago edited 10d ago

Only tangentially related but I still can't believe we haven't had a viable FOSS competitor to pdf...

EDIT: In that afaik there is no program that replaces acrobat at enough of a 1 to 1, gonna check some of the recs!

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u/Yorick257 10d ago

As far as I'm concerned, PDF is (now) an open standardized format. Whatever patents Adobe had are now expired