Recently, we are writing paper for some conference.  In order to collaborate with other people, we choose Word as the editor, because it is easy to track changes and comments.  Finally, we decide to move to latex, some figures in Word should be 'ported' to latex.

Here is a process of port figures in Word to Latex easily,
1.  Print Word document to pdf file
2.  Convert PDF to PS.  In Linux, pdf2ps can do that,
3.  In tex file,

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[trim = 0mm 110mm 0mm 60mm,width=3.5in,clip]{figure1.ps}
\caption{Implementation architecture}
\end{figure}

Then, the figure in Word is ported to latex.

1 comments:

Good tips Yao.

With AbiWord[1], it is possible that you can move your text paragraphs from within Word to LaTex, to some degree automatically. And you will be surprised how simple it is - open your .doc (or even .docx) document with AbiWord, and save a copy as latex document. That is it :) But of course you will have to manual-edit the output .tex file a bit.

[1] http://www.abiword.com/

April 18, 2010 at 10:05 PM  

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