[colug-432] TeX

[Steve VanSlyck]

yes I'm aware of that but it is not about creating a PDF but rather the fact that I need to file in word so that it can be loaded into my Kindle library.  I cannot send a PDF to my Kindle library and have it load in the Kindle

Vince Herried <Vince at PlanetVince.com> wrote:
>Kile a kde application creates pdf or ps files just fine.
>I'm using it at the moment for a course I'm taking.
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>On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Steve VanSlyck
><s.vanslyck at spamcop.net>wrote:
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>> also it's not possible to send a PDF to my Kindle I need to have it
>in in
>> the Kindle library in order to do that I need to send it to the
>Kindle as
>> it as a Word document
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>> Rick Hornsby <richardjhornsby at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>  On Feb 22, 2014, at 9:48, Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck at spamcop.net>
>wrote:
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>>>>  Hey guys.
>>>>
>>>>  I have a TeX file. Goal is to convert it to Word (DOC or possibly
>DOCX)
>>>>  with all fonts embedded so I can send it to my Kindle.
>>>>
>>>>  Is there anyone here who can do that for me? Much of the file is
>simple
>>>>  Times Roman (or some equivalent typeface) but there are some
>>>>  mathematical symbols and such.
>>>>
>>>>  And if so, can you tell me what you'll need (if anything) apart
>from the
>>>>  TeX text file itself?
>>>>
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>>> Disclaimer: I've worked very little with LaTeX documents.
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>>> It seems like a more direct conversion would be to PDF, which the
>Kindle supports easily.
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>>> I'm not in front of a Linux box right now, but I can imagine with a
>fair degree of certai!
>>>  nty
>>> there is a tex2pdf or tex2ps converter in the repo of any major
>distro.  (ps2pdf would be the second step if going to postscript
>first).  This might help:
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>>> http://tex2pdf.berlios.de
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>>> I'm sure there is a way to convert to Word but ... ugh. 
>Proprietary, closed format, but maybe worst is the strong possibility
>of massive document formatting loss, etc.  I say this from experience
>with MSWord conversion nonsense over the years, and having dealt with
>stupidness taking the same PowerPoint file between Windows and OSX just
>this week, and finding inexplicable formatting differences.
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