On Sep 4, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Michael Parson wrote:
How long ago was that? OpenOffice has improved over the last couple years.
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>> I have just tried the groff-->PS-->PDF-->OpenOffice route.
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>> When given the PDF file to open, OO Writer took a while, and then
>> came up with a screen tha
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, ted.hard...@wlandres.net wrote:
On 11-Aug-2012 22:33:21 Larry Kollar wrote:
Clarke Echols wrote:
I have a potential client who needs copy in DOC/Word format, and I'm
on Linux. ...
Last time I tried anything of the sort, I produced a doc file from
OpenOffice Writer, but w
On 11-Aug-2012 22:33:21 Larry Kollar wrote:
> Clarke Echols wrote:
>
>> I have a potential client who needs copy in DOC/Word format, and I'm
>> on Linux. ...
>>
>> Last time I tried anything of the sort, I produced a doc file from
>> OpenOffice Writer, but when I read it using Word on a PC, the
Clarke Echols wrote:
> I have a potential client who needs copy in DOC/Word format, and I'm
> on Linux. ...
>
> Last time I tried anything of the sort, I produced a doc file from
> OpenOffice Writer, but when I read it using Word on a PC, the tables
> were mangled beyond anything remotely useful
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 01:54:58PM -0600, Clarke Echols wrote:
> Can I reliably get from groff source to PS (no EQN, but may include
> tables), then convert to PDF using ps2pdf with the expectation that
> Word will import the PDF file and convert to DOC without breaking
> things?
I don't know that
About 8 years ago, there was a discussion of using pstopdf to get from
groff PostScript output to PDF, and then bring that into Word as a DOC
file.
I have a potential client who needs copy in DOC/Word format, and I'm
on Linux. That leads to my question:
Can I reliably get from groff source to P
