[OS X TeX] Track Changes - Functionality for collaborative work

[Claus Gerhardt]

I wasn't aware that Acrobat offers the option to save a pdf file as a  
MS-Word document, but tried it now with Acrobat 6.0.2 Professional:  
first with a paper of mine, but the output looked really bad, Acrobat  
apparently cannot handle mathematical formulas well; secondly, I  
converted the manual of a Latex package, certainly also created by  
latex, maybe pdflatex, and the output was no doubt acceptable.

Claus


On Mar 23, 2006, at 21:48, Themis Matsoukas wrote:

> On Mar 23, 2006, at 2:35 PM, Alex wrote:
>
>>
>> Two pricey solutions:
>>
>> (a) Adobe Acrobat (v6 or v7, Pro or Standard) > File > Save As...  
>> > Format: Microsoft Word Document.
>>
>> [...]
>
> I have Acrobat 7 and had not realized you can save as word  
> document. So I tried it with a pdf generated through pdflatex:
>
> 1. For some reason, the text in the word file has been rotated 90  
> degrees (i.e. is is printed landscape,although page setup in Word  
> says that the orientation is portrait). The graphs have not been  
> rotated.
> 2. The math did not survive.
> 3. The word document has 63 pages while the original pdf has 33  
> (several pages in the word file are nearly empty).
>
> In short, you should probably ask your secretary to make the  
> conversion by hand...
>
> Themis
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