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Why would I ever use this over overleaf?

• VelNZ 6y ago
  They're completely different products with completely different goals.
  • forgotpwd16 6y ago
    They aren't completely different though they've different goals. >Creodocs lets you create consistent documents from beautiful templates online >1. Select a document from the gallery >2. Enter content for variable parts of the document >3. Create and download your document as a PDF They only really differ in two (2). That's basically introducing a form for every template or running a script on some data.
    • VelNZ 6y ago
      Word/Google Docs/Pages/Writer are what-you-see-is-what-you-get editors (WYSIWYG). Overleaf abstracts away the content from the presentation somewhat due to the nature of LaTeX, but it still effectively provides a real time view of your document as you make changes similar to the WYSIWYGs. Creodocs explicitly does not allow you to make any changes to the document design or layout as a user. Want to increase the font size? You can't. Want to make something red? Unless it's already red, you can't. Of course that's a major limitation if you want to make changes, but it leads to highly consistent documents. Of course any given option can be exposed in the template if it's important, but the point is that templates are static by default. Further, the document types that are best for the platforms differ. Creodocs should not be used to write an article, book or any document where there is a lot of text and custom elements (figures/tables). What it's designed for is documents like invoices, recipes, signs; all documents where there are relatively few changes between multiple instances of the document type and text is the main dynamic content. Hope that makes sense and helps!