Re: Converting to doc format
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)
Re: Converting to doc format
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.
Re: Converting to doc format
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
Re: Converting to doc format
On 22 Oct 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 21 Oct 2009, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:50:56PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > Thanks to all for replies. I went to the Wiki as suggested and found how > > > to export files as rtf, which should be loadable into Openoffice > > > - excellent! I'll make a start on the conversion soon. > > > > This wasn't actually what I had in mind -- if you have the latest and > > greatest LaTeX under the hood, there actually should be an option to > > export OpenOffice.org files. Then you can open that up and, if need > > be, save it as a Word doc. One fewer conversion step. > > > > Strictly speaking, BTW, RTF files _are_ Word files: RTF is officially > > the non-binary "form" of Word files (up until the recent XML-based > > format, which is completely different). This principle was, I > > understand, honoured more in the breach. > > > > This is vesion 1.6.4 but I can't see any such option here. > > AC > -- Ah -- I think I may have found the answer. I first installed tex4ht and then reconfigured, after which I get the option to export as OpenDocument. This gives a file with .odt extension, which seems to be what is needed. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)
Re: Converting to doc format
On 21 Oct 2009, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:50:56PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Thanks to all for replies. I went to the Wiki as suggested and found how > > to export files as rtf, which should be loadable into Openoffice > > - excellent! I'll make a start on the conversion soon. > > This wasn't actually what I had in mind -- if you have the latest and > greatest LaTeX under the hood, there actually should be an option to > export OpenOffice.org files. Then you can open that up and, if need > be, save it as a Word doc. One fewer conversion step. > > Strictly speaking, BTW, RTF files _are_ Word files: RTF is officially > the non-binary "form" of Word files (up until the recent XML-based > format, which is completely different). This principle was, I > understand, honoured more in the breach. > This is vesion 1.6.4 but I can't see any such option here. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)
Re: Converting to doc format
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Anders Ekberg wrote: > Try eLyxer, export to HTML and import the HTML in Word (see elyxer > documentation for the switch to make the html readable in Word.) Yeah, and let us know how it goes. I am interested in any problems you might have during the conversion. > Note that equations etc will not work. On the generated HTML they may look right, especially on Firefox; but after importing from Word they will probably look very strange. Alex.
Re: Converting to doc format
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:50:56PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Thanks to all for replies. I went to the Wiki as suggested and found how > to export files as rtf, which should be loadable into Openoffice > - excellent! I'll make a start on the conversion soon. This wasn't actually what I had in mind -- if you have the latest and greatest LaTeX under the hood, there actually should be an option to export OpenOffice.org files. Then you can open that up and, if need be, save it as a Word doc. One fewer conversion step. Strictly speaking, BTW, RTF files _are_ Word files: RTF is officially the non-binary "form" of Word files (up until the recent XML-based format, which is completely different). This principle was, I understand, honoured more in the breach. A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@shinkuro.com Shinkuro, Inc.
Re: Converting to doc format
On 21 Oct 2009, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:55:10AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > 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? > > I have managed to export directly from LyX to OOo. It's far from > perfect (cross-references don't work), but it's better than plain > text. The Wiki was helpful to me in how to do this. > Thanks to all for replies. I went to the Wiki as suggested and found how to export files as rtf, which should be loadable into Openoffice - excellent! I'll make a start on the conversion soon. 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)
Re: Converting to doc format
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 09:28:54AM -0400, rgheck wrote: > As you see, YMMV, but most people on Linux seem to have pretty good luck > with oolatex. It's on other platforms that this seems not to be > reliable. Yeah, I should have mentioned that I never managed to get it to work on my Mac. I haven't tried it on FreeBSD, either. A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@shinkuro.com Shinkuro, Inc.
Re: Converting to doc format
On 10/21/2009 08:39 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:55:10AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: 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? As you see, YMMV, but most people on Linux seem to have pretty good luck with oolatex. It's on other platforms that this seems not to be reliable. How well it works depends upon how complicated your document is. rh
Re: Converting to doc format
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:55:10AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > 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? I have managed to export directly from LyX to OOo. It's far from perfect (cross-references don't work), but it's better than plain text. The Wiki was helpful to me in how to do this. A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@shinkuro.com Shinkuro, Inc.
Re: Converting to doc format
Hi! On 21 okt 2009, at 11.55, Anthony Campbell wrote: > >> 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? Personally, whenever I had to submit a text in M$ Word format, I do the following: 1) I export the document in LaTeX. 2) I run the .tex file against bibtex (if needed) and latex in order to produce necessary output tiles (like .bbl and .aux). 3) I use latex2rtf (http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/) to convert the file in rtf. 4) I finalise the document with OOo, save in in Word format and submit it. Of course, you have reserve some time for these steps, but it is manageable. Kind regards, Kimmo
Re: Converting to doc format
On 21 okt 2009, at 11.55, Anthony Campbell wrote: 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 -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles) Try eLyxer, export to HTML and import the HTML in Word (see elyxer documentation for the switch to make the html readable in Word.) Note that equations etc will not work. /Anders
Converting to doc format
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 -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)
