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 -- NEW GERMAN FAX NUMBER!!! Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 Fax: +27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax: +49 - (0)321 2125 2244 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug Google: r.m.k...@gmail.com
