Re: Conversion PDF->WMF
Install PS printer on your windows machine. Print to a file to make a
PostScript file. On Linux PS files can be converted to CGM using ps2edit
on command line or interactively using vector drawing program "sketch".
I think that there is free plug-in for MS Word to import PS files.
Google for it.
On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 10:36, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> Because of unpleasant requirements at work, I am producing diagrams in a
> Windows program that has no export capabilities at all. I can print,
> however, and I am using the free PDFCreator project from sourceforge to
> generate PDFs. This is all well and good, but I now need to insert these
> diagrams in Word and modify them, which sucks.
>
> It seems that the only vector formats Word understands are CGM, WMF, and
> EMF. I took the PDFs I'd produced over to a Debian box and looked into
> pstoedit. Unfortunately, its CGM output is mediocre (did terrible things to
> fonts) and I had to use acroread to convert the PDF to PS before using it.
> (It claims it works on PDF, and it should since it is based on ghostscript,
> but it did not like these PDFs.) Another try was using pstoedit to convert
> to an xfig file, then use fig2dev to convert to EMF, but that was even
> worse. Even the xfig file looked crappy. I suspect the problems with
> pstoedit had more to do with acroread's conversion to PS, but I'm not sure.
>
> Does anyone have any other suggestions on how to translate from PDF to CGM,
> WMF, or EMF?
>
> --Greg
>
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