On 23 Oct 2009, Pete Crite wrote: > On 23/10/2009, at 3:34 AM, Florian Rubach wrote: > > >Anthony Campbell schrieb: > >>I'm thinking of publishing in ebook form via Smashwords, who > >>unfortunately demand Word format. I'm on Linux and as far as I > >>can see > >>after a fair amount of googling the only practical way of doing > >>this is > >>to produce a plain text (txt) version from Lyx, import it into the > >>Openoffice WP, and save it as a .doc file from there. > >> > >>Does anyone know a better way? > >> > >>Anthony > >The most accurate way I found until now (working even for complicated > >documents) is exporting the document to pdf and then submitting it to > >www.pdftoword.com. > >I don't know if you are comfortable with giving away your document > >to a > >site where I wasn't able to find any statement about the security of > >your data, but the results look stunningly good and are even well > >editable. > > > >Florian > > > > I just used this service, and it's not bad! For some strange reason > though, my inline (ex-pdf or png) images were destroyed. Also, there > were a few other strange artefacts in formatting. Also note that it > took about 3 hours before it finished processing for me (it emails > you the results), so don't use it if you are in a hurry! > > From the site: > The PDF files you upload for conversion are deleted straight after > being converted. > The DOC/RTF files we generate are deleted immediately after we email > you them. > At no stage are your files looked at or touched by the administrator > of our PDF-to-Word service.
It doesn't like my pdf; I tried several times without success. But I get pretty good results with direct export from Lyx to OOffice. Following a tip on Smashwords I've saved the transferred file as .txt and then reloaded it. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)
