Re: [Groff] Question re: groff to PS to PDF to Microsoft Word...

2012-09-04 Thread Michael Parson
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, ted.hard...@wlandres.net wrote: On 11-Aug-2012 22:33:21 Larry Kollar wrote: Clarke Echols cla...@verinet.net 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

Re: [Groff] Question re: groff to PS to PDF to Microsoft Word...

2012-09-04 Thread Larry Kollar
On Sep 4, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Michael Parson mpar...@bl.org wrote: How long ago was that? OpenOffice has improved over the last couple years. I have just tried the groff--PS--PDF--OpenOffice route. When given the PDF file to open, OO Writer took a while, and then came up with a screen that

Re: [Groff] Question re: groff to PS to PDF to Microsoft Word...

2012-08-12 Thread Ted Harding
On 11-Aug-2012 22:33:21 Larry Kollar wrote: Clarke Echols cla...@verinet.net 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

[Groff] Question re: groff to PS to PDF to Microsoft Word...

2012-08-11 Thread Clarke Echols
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

Re: [Groff] Question re: groff to PS to PDF to Microsoft Word...

2012-08-11 Thread brian m. carlson
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

Re: [Groff] Question re: groff to PS to PDF to Microsoft Word...

2012-08-11 Thread Larry Kollar
Clarke Echols cla...@verinet.net 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