RE: [libreoffice-users] Put LibreOffice as unedited document viewer only

Open the document that you want to make read-only.

Click the File | Save As ... menu.

On the Save As change the name if you want to keep the editable version separate.  If not, leave 
the name and location the same.

On the Save As dialog, check the "Save with Password."  (Don't worry, that will be modified in the 
next step.)

Click Save on the Save As dialog.

When the "Set Password" dialog opens, *do* *not* enter a password.

Instead, click the "More Options"

Under the "File sharing password" part of the expanded dialog:

 1. Check "Open file read-only"

 2. Enter a password to allow editing.

 3. Confirm the password. 

Now click "OK" on the Set Password dialog.

This will prevent direct editing of the file.

This is not fool-proof.  It is possible to overcome the read-only condition 
without knowing the password: 
  1. Material can be selected and copied to the clip-board.
  2. The document can be Saved As to another file, and that copy will not be
read-only. 
  (I just confirmed all of this with LibreOffice 3.6.4.3 on Windows XP SP3.) 


 - Dennis






-----Original Message-----
From: jathan [mailto:jathanblackred@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 17:51
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Put LibreOffice as unedited document viewer only

[ ... ] An apology for some ambiguity in 
my explanation. That I want to do with LibreOffice is use it in 
read-only mode by default in place of edit function as odfviewer: 
http://opendocumentfellowship.com/odfviewer, pptview for powerpoint 
presentations or Evince or Adobe Reader for PDF documents. That is to 
say that no document can be opened for editing without assigning 
permissions previously in LibreOffice, only use it as a ODF documents 
viewer. Thanks.

[ ... ]


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