Description: The "open with..." contextual menu (right-click or control-click) for a pdf document does not present LibreOffice as an alternative to the default app (preview.) You can get LibreOffice to open a pdf doc from that menu by navigating to the app from the "other..." selection, but at least from 5.4.5 on it is not even presented as a "recommended" app and you have to enable the "all applications" setting. (in LO 3.3 at least it comes up as a recommended app.) I've looked over the info.plist for 3.3 vs 5.4.5 and can't find an obvious reason why 3.3 and 5.4.5 have different behavior, but it is clear that neither one has "pdf" as a type extension it understands. I've looked at the info.plist for NeoOffice and does have an entry for pdf and NeoOffice is presented as an alternative to preview in the "open with" contextual menu. (see attached screen shot.) Yes, I know it is possible to permanently designate LibreOffice as the preferred app for opening pdf by making the appropriate selection in that contextual menu or the info window, but that's not what I'm talking about. I just want to occasionally, but easily, have LibreOffice open a pdf doc, not make it a permanent association. I assume all that is required is adding an entry (or entries) for pdf files somewhere in the info.plist, but there are so many different things that I don't understand about them I haven't bothered to experiment. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Control-click (or right click) on a pdf document 2. 3. Actual Results: See attached screen shot. Expected Results: LibreOffice should be listed as one of the applications below the first (default or permanently associated) app. I have no idea why some of what's there show up, but at least LibreOffice should! Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Version: 6.0.2.1 Build ID: f7f06a8f319e4b62f9bc5095aa112a65d2f3ac89 CPU threads: 4; OS: Mac OS X 10.13.3; UI render: default; Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_3) AppleWebKit/604.5.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.0.3 Safari/604.5.6
Created attachment 140641 [details] Screen shot of "open with" contextual menu
I see in submitting the bug I missed step 2, which should read "select 'open with' menu item."!
Confirming on MacOSX 10.13.3. Ironically, Microsoft Word appears in the context menu of apps in which one can load a PDF, but LibreOffice does not.
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macOS 11.2.2 LO 7.1.1.2 persisting