Hi all,

What fast but functional document editor do you recommend? I would like to add custom fonts and do some page layout work, but otherwise nothing too fancy.

Suggestions?

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Why not libreoffice

Edit: I believe it’s maintained unlike the former

poVoq
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OnlyOffice is not the unmaintained OpenOffice.

Thanks for the correction

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So, LibreOffice can be used over the Internet in a web browser?

I use Collabora CODE, which is an online version of LibreOffice. I don’t know a ton about the technical details, but I’m pretty sure it does server side rendering.

Here’s a guide to configure it with Nextcloud.

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Ah, I see. Not as native web application, though.

They’re using Alpine Linux, install X and Openbox and Xvnc and serve KasmVNC via Nginx and connect via KasmVNC to that X instance. LibreOffice is started in fullscreen and looks like a slightly blurry web application.

But in reality it is just a regular desktop installation with some extra things.

@fikran@lemm.ee, maybe this is a solution? I wouldn’t recommend it because it’s not really a web-based document editor.

Oh that looks horrible, never mind!

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Usually you just see LibreOffice and nothing else, so it’s fine, I guess. Not a web-based editor, but usable.

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