LaTeX to Word: my quick and dirty tricks
I try to use LaTeX to write most papers recently, not only because of those professional layouts the system automatically produce, but also because of the strong feeling of hierarchical structure -- sections, subsections, subsubsections... -- things extend like a tree, in right style, in perfect order. But I constantly worry about how I can convert LaTeX outputs into MS Word when it is necessary. After all, unlike in mathematics or statistics, many people in my fields are still using MS Word.
It took me quite a few hours to try LaTeX2rtf, but I still don’t have a clue how to run the program although it may have been successfully installed through Fink. I then tried LyX, which can open LaTeX files (with some tweaking occasionally) and then export them to HTMLs. The texts look fine, but the formulas are converted to PNG files with a quality only good for web browsing. Tables look ugly as well.
My final resort is to select formulas and tables from a PDF and insert them into MS Word. I tried Acrobat Reader, Preview, and Skim. It turns out that the best approach is to select and “crop” in Preview and then save as PNG file. The output quality is reasonable, and, more importantly, the graph stays in the original size to be easily pulled into a Word file.
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p.s. I just discovered that LaTeXiT can export LaTeX formulas to high-resolution PNG or other formats with specific font size. [07/06]