Bug 169184 - Make LibreOffice a reading app
Summary: Make LibreOffice a reading app
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 37817
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2025-11-01 02:17 UTC by Danat
Modified: 2025-11-01 12:28 UTC (History)
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Description Danat 2025-11-01 02:17:46 UTC
Description:
I thought that LibreOffice would be an amazing app for reading if it had a dedicated reader mode

I'd like to read PDF books and docx documents with LibreOffice. I think it would be awesome

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Enter reader mode for convenient reading
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Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

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Comment 1 Danat 2025-11-01 03:50:35 UTC
I'd call it something like LibreOffice Reader
Comment 2 Mike Kaganski 2025-11-01 07:12:18 UTC
What is "reader mode" at all? in which aspects it would differ from other modes (e.g., read-only)?
Comment 3 Danat 2025-11-01 07:38:15 UTC
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #2)
> What is "reader mode" at all? in which aspects it would differ from other
> modes (e.g., read-only)?

It is simply a mode that hides everything (or leaves something, but minimally) so you can read comfortably

LibreOffice isn't the best thing when it comes to that. I read documents in browser, but I'd like to read them in LibreOffice. It's good for making docs but not reading them

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FrTcXL-AzkaRLxIo9qULsR7Q9UrcWzt9/view?usp=sharing
Comment 4 V Stuart Foote 2025-11-01 12:28:31 UTC
LibreOffice is not a reader, its core function is the correct *creation* of Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF). External formats like PDF or OOXML are filter imported into LibreOffice and represented within limits of those filters in the LibreOffice authoring environment.

Frankly you risk your external documents by opening them into LibreOffice, should you accidentally overwrite them.

(In reply to Danat from comment #3)
> It is simply a mode that hides everything (or leaves something, but
> minimally) so you can read comfortably
> 
> LibreOffice isn't the best thing when it comes to that. I read documents in
> browser, but I'd like to read them in LibreOffice. It's good for making docs
> but not reading them
>

We've discussed "focused" mode UI layouts that might be of interest, bug 37817

Other than LibreOffice not being a "reader" this would be a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 37817 ***