On Monday, 30 May 2011 02:32:32 +0530, Mihira Fernando wrote: >> Currently I'm making the Final University Project and I've found that >> the templates provided by teachers for the reports are in Microsoft Word >> format. It is sad to note that encourages the use of a closed-format for >> something that should mean a contribution to humanity... >> >> When trying to open these documents with Ooo 2.x on Debian, headers are >> displayed incorrectly or there is another problem in how to interpret >> any other details of the layout of the document. >> >> I was testing with tools on the web, but I noticed that with several of >> them are seen the same mistakes when converting from DOC to PDF or ODT, >> which makes me think that maybe to open the Word document they are using >> the same engine type. >> >> Only this [1] seems to convert correctly to PDF. Given this half, I was >> missing the other half to convert a PDF to ODT, but unfortunately so far >> I did not find something that meets my expectations. I tested this [2] >> extension with OOo 3.2 on Debian, but it seems that this does not create >> a normal text editable document, but some type of picture with text >> boxes. >> >> Are there some tools that can be recommend me to do this kind of >> conversion (DOC -> ODT) with or without intermediate steps? > have you tried opening it with google docs and saving as odt ? Yes, we tried to upload the Word document to Google Docs, but the styles are displayed broken too. Thanks for your reply. Regards, Daniel -- Fingerprint: BFB3 08D6 B4D1 31B2 72B9 29CE 6696 BF1B 14E6 1D37 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Lenny - Linux user #188.598
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