That's the funniest thing I've ever read, and it's the perfect thing to give these bozos who insist on MS Word.
I'm pretty sure for big documents this could be automated with pdftk and convert plus a program to generate an abiword file from the page pictures. The abiword file can then be converted to an msword .doc , which then could be manually tweaked as a whole to get things exactly the way you want it. SteveT On Wednesday 07 July 2010 03:27:05 Rainer M Krug wrote: > Hi > > I just found that idea on how to deal with latex / pdf to doc > conversion in read-only format. Quite an ingenius idea: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Torsten Wagner <torsten.wag...@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:48 AM > Subject: Re: [Orgmode] any idea how to convert org file to MS WORD an > retain text structure? > To: Rainer Stengele <rainer.steng...@diplan.de> > Cc: emacs-orgm...@gnu.org > > > SNIP > > Let me bring another way into discussion. > Sometimes people ask for MS-Word files because they simply do not know > it better and the use MS-Word as a kind of media-container format. They > ask for MS-Word format but they will not process the document in any > way. Simply print it as it is. > > This is often the case e.g., for conference proceedings where people > asked me for a camera ready MS Word document. Already the phrase > "camera-ready MS Word document" contains mutual exclusive words, taking > into account what a mess could happen after opening up a MS Word file in > a different version (both release and language version) of MS Office. > > What I did already several times and I never got any complain was the > conversion of the generated PDF (from LaTeX) in a single image per page > (preferable png, tiff or any other compression format with a non-loss in > quality) > I placed this "page-pictures" in a Word-file, exactly as it would be > printed (I cropped the boarders with the MS-Word graphic tools. > > This could be very quickly and easily done for < 10 pages by hand. > > In the printed version of the proceeding, the conference organizers > simply added a head- and footnote. I guess they simply opened up every > MS Word file marked all content and copy and paste all of them in a > MS-Word file with the preferable head- and footnote. > > As I said, I never got any negative feedback. Maybe the never noticed it > at all or there thought it might be some bug, safety feature, different > version problem, etc. > > > Just a quick and dirty trick which saves much much time. ;) > > > Greetings > > Torsten >
