Pi LibreOffice and Mac

[Mark1953]

I bought my 9 year old grandson a Raspberry Pi for Christmas (actually it was a Kano system but that is by the by). He's spent a lot of time on it (including creating a basic Pi Noobs and getting that going for himself) and is totally enthralled (particularly Minecraft).

In the system he noticed LibreOffice and wants to use the packages to create himself some documents (for school homework). However, before he gets too far, does anybody know whether the Pi LibreOffice creates files that can be read by the Mac applications (Pages, Numbers, Keynote). He doesn't have a printer and the only printer I have is connected to my Mac and I don't want him creating lots of stuff only to find that he can't do anything with it.

Thanks

Mark

[walter_1]

Libre Office is able to export to PDF, that should work on any common platform.

[buja]

There is a Mac OS X version of LibreOffice, so you could simply transfer the original documents from the Pi to the Mac.

LibreOffice can export documents to PDF, but also to Microsoft Office and a number of other formats. LibreOffice's own format is the Open Document Format and chances are that your Mac software supports that.

[Mark1953]

Thanks for the answers. At least I know I'll have a reasonable chance of making it work. I didn't really want to load LibreOffice onto the Mac but PDFs will work fine.

[euphonius]

Dear Mark, I'm curious to know how this plays out, as I'm a Mac/Libreoffice user and keen to start tinkering with Raspberry Pi for a solar PV system controller. So please feel free to post your findings here!

Thanks

[drgeoff]

PDFs may be fine if one only needs to view the documents on the Mac. But if one wishes to do further editing on the Mac (or elsewhere), PDF is not a good choice.

[Mark1953]

What I'm hoping to try is to let him create files on his Pi, use dropbox to send them to me for printing/further editing and them send them back to him (also via dropbox). I'll let you know how it pans out.

[fruitoftheloom]

What I'm hoping to try is to let him create files on his Pi, use dropbox to send them to me for printing/further editing and them send them back to him (also via dropbox). I'll let you know how it pans out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffi ... le_formats

[Mark1953]

What I'm hoping to try is to let him create files on his Pi, use dropbox to send them to me for printing/further editing and them send them back to him (also via dropbox). I'll let you know how it pans out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffi ... le_formats

Thanks for this response. What it seems to show is (much as I expected) that LibreOffice doesn't support Apple's iWork formats directly but by exporting them to Microsoft formats, at a first pass they seem to be able to talk to each other. Obviously some fonts are not supported across the different environments and the templates have to be compatible (most noticeable with Keynote where the default layouts are different).

So, we can do what I hoped. He can create stuff and put it into a shared dropbox folder, I can read them and edit them (where appropriate) then when he wants me to see/print exactly what he's put, he saves it as a PDF. Isn't technology wonderful !!