On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 11:47:43AM +0200, Walter H. van Holst wrote: > Hello, I have written a thesis in LyX and usually used the pdf output > option to make it usable for my coach. Faculty standards however > require a electronic version in a single file that is readable by > MS-Word.
Try to change the faculty standard. Seriously. Ask them why they want MS-Word. Ask them for how long they are supposed to store your thesis and ask them how they will guarantee that they can read it and the end of that period. Ask them what the real typesetting requirements are and offer them to stick to those. Be polite, stay on the technical side. You'll most likely not succeed, but if you don't do that, they won't learn that there are alternatives. And all your successors will have the same problem. > PDF is not readably by Word. So far I haven't found any free tools to > convert my document to a MS-Word document. Does anyone here have a > suggestion to end up with a single file that is readable by Word and > still preserves the lay-out? If I were given such a task I'd convert the .pdf pages invidually to bitmaps and import them as graphics into Word. At least for .ps I've seen that being done. Big file, big fun... In fact, this is more or less the only option if you want the layout. If you can live with Words own view of the typesetting world you could try to export to .html and import that from Word. Not nice. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
