It takes few minutes just to open a pdf (that don't need to be edited)

[user-cnd567]

It takes few minutes to simply open an average size book.pdf, probably because it opens it for editing which requires much more processing. (Acrobat DC opens it in a few seconds, then, if you want you could edit it but then it’ll require some time to process the file). I can’t set the pdf file as “read-only” because I want to highlight it.

So, is there a way to quickly open a pdf to read/highlight it?

Can we use LibreOffice as a pdf reader (which means quick to pen), or is it “only”* a pdf editor (*being able to edit the pdf is already great!).

[user-cnd567]

(I can’t add the .pdf tag, the explanations about the tags aren’t clear)

[mikekaganski]

It is neither. It does not open PDF for editing - it imports from PDF what it understands into its own object model (i.e., internally creates something like ODG). Then you of course may export to PDF - but that would be another conversion from internal “ODG” into new PDF.

The conversion process id slow, and there’s no way to avoid that in LO.

[anon73440385]

Turn it this way: LibreOffice is not a PDF reader.

[ajlittoz]

@user-cnd567: I retagged your question on your behalf.

The tag system is a way to directly ring some contributors who monitor specific tags. This is why some are required: writer, calc, draw, impress, base and math focus on one application; common is for non-specific problems like installation issues (before you can work on a specific application), printing interface, …; meta is for everything else, mainly difficulties with AskLO site.