From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Torsten Wagner Subject: Re: any idea how to convert org file to MS WORD an retain text structure? Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:48:53 +0900 Message-ID: <4C33C0E5.7010907@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38419 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OWHs3-0000ve-Ll for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:48:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWHs2-0004vg-65 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:48:11 -0400 Received: from mail-pv0-f169.google.com ([74.125.83.169]:56559) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWHs1-0004us-Ue for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:48:10 -0400 Received: by pvc30 with SMTP id 30so1155717pvc.0 for ; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:48:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Rainer Stengele Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Rainer, > I tried HTML export and then imported the html in Word but > I end up in an unusable xml style document which word wants an stylesheet for which I do not have. This is what does for me the best job if I have to deal with MS Word - LaTeX conversion. How to do it with org-mode was answered already. 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