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Posted by Graham Smith
Dec 31, 2006 at 08:39 AM
Tom
>I finally broke down and went MS after being asked one too many
>times to convert a document to Word for publicaiton.
A folllow up to this.
I see that some of the journals I have kicking around seem to accept Word or PDF originals, so maybe PDF is becoming a more acceptable format and opening
AND have you tried/looked at ALLPDF
http://www.bcltechnologies.com/document/products/allpdf/samples_allpdf.htm
My trial ran out on this, before I fully tested it, but it seemed to do a pretty decent job of converting PDFs into Word file.
I think I might go ahead and buy a copy as, I now and again want to convert PDF to Word (nothing to do with Lyx/Latex) and it might also offer a relatively painless way of getting Lyx into Word.
Graham
Posted by Tom S.
Dec 31, 2006 at 04:45 PM
I must be the only person left in the world who likes Word. :)
Thanks for the suggestion. I might have tried it 5 years ago but its too late now. FWIW, the only reason that I ever got these journals to give me for requiring Word was that they want an accurate word count. Pdf’s don’t give you that. Or, I should say, they didn’t back then. I’m not sure about now. It always seemed like a lousy excuse to me since I could think of half a dozen ways to get around it but that’s the way it goes.
Its really OK. I’m not complaining any more. I’ve got the whole thing set up with Reference Manager and it integrates with other programs so well that it make it worthwhile. Its nice to compose Outlook emails in Word with all of the functions tht come with it. I was unhappy at the time, of course, but after making the adjustment, I’ve had few problems.
Tom S.
Posted by Graham Smith
Dec 31, 2006 at 05:06 PM
Tom,
>I must be the only person left in the world who likes Word. :)
I’m sure you aren’t but most people I know, either hate it or tolerate it. I certainly don’t hate it with a vengeance the way some people do.
If you are happy with it, that is fine.
I’m not sure, however, why you couldn’t do a word count in Lyx, before converting it to a PDF, or did the journals want to do their own word count?
Graham
Posted by Tom S.
Jan 1, 2007 at 02:24 PM
Graham Smith wrote:
>I’m
>not sure, however, why you couldn’t do a word count in Lyx, before converting it to a
>PDF, or did the journals want to do their own word count?
As I said, there must be half a dozen ways at least to get around it. It was a lusy excuse but there comes a time when you don’t fight city hall.
Tom S.
Posted by Graham Smith
Jan 1, 2007 at 04:21 PM
Tom
>As I said, there must be half a dozen ways at least to get around it. It was a lusy
>excuse but there comes a time when you don’t fight city hall.
yes, I agree.
Graham