Convert Docx To Word [UPDATED]
Jacque Finister
I am trying to convert docx files to pdf on my Ubuntu server using the command line but none of converters I tried so far seems to convert Word 2007/2010/2013 files correctly.
Appearently online converters can manage it without any problems but Web services are not an option because the files contain sensitive data. For tests I use this Word 2007 file because it contains some important elements (formulas, vector graphics, images, lists, etc.). I tested the following tools (partly from this post):
Is there any way to convert docx files to PDF on Linux correctly? It would also help me if I knew it works for someone with any of the programs I already mentioned.I will start a bounty as soon as SE lets me.
I had to conclude that as for me, as for now, there is no reliable tool which will work with new MS Word formats and all kind of its elements on Ubuntu and create a one-to-one copy of docx files. None of tools I tested could convert the sample file properly. Since I will be facing very different kind of document versions/contents and the output quality has one of the highest priority, I will end up performing the conversions by means of VB macros in Word on a Windows server connected to my Linux.
I have tested the other methods suggested so far (especially oowriter and ebook-convert), but they pass less tests than this method. The ebook-convert method strips the margins and a part of the texts out of the document.
It seems that libreoffice and unoconv have some problems with correctly rendering the flow chart that is in the .docx file. This is probably because it was made using smart art in Microsoft Office. That is the problem. That is a bug also discussed on this thread. The textual and visual information is present in the pdf resulting from the above method as you can see (I had to select the text, though).
In short, what you are doing is really hard and there are at present no solutions that will fully satisfy you. The achilles' heel of docx2pdf conversions is the smart art. If you can live without that or if you can find a way to spot smart art and convert it somehow into an image, you can reach your goal.
If the flow charts are often very similar and depending on how good a developper you are, you could try and convert the smart art separately. You could, extract the drawing1.xml file from the .docx cluster of documents and then use natural language processing and some crazy hacks to rebuild a the smart art. For instance, you'd have to mess with this type of xml:
I have done some more research the past few days and I have found a service that does the conversion perfectly: zamzar. Zamzar allows you to upload a docx file and then emails you a link. They also have a (paying?) service where you can send any file to [email protected] and then get the converted file back in your inbox. You could easily build a system around this where you automatically send the file and parse it from the email. This is not so much work and it the end result is the best.
So to be sure you need to process your .docx files with a Microsoft Word installation (and yes, I think it's their option and it's fair. If you do not want to use Word, don't use it --- I go with LaTeX for my work, but it's difficult to convince the rest of the world around...).
This is probably a problem with the fact that you are trying to convert to PDF from DOC/DOCX, when most of the tools use ODT, as they are related to LibreOffice/OpenOffice/AbiWord. Thus, they either fail at trying to convert it from Microsofts DOCX format or in the conversion to ODT.
I think it is because the picture files are in a sub-directory, and the plugin does not pass the correct path to Pandoc.
With a blanc, normal note and paste the picture and trying to convert the note (.md) to a Word document it works.
It can make a file docxs. When I make a screenshot with Greenshot and paste it in Obsidian and that the .png file not listed in a directory. This step is crucial, otherwise it cannot find the .png file.
Because I like to see my directory structures clean, I automatically convert any Microsoft documents into GSuite (so I don't have to see the .docx etc extensions). But I'm wondering, when dealing with others around me who are also contributing to GDrives, whether it's worth the argument to have them also "Save as Google Docs" when I don't have a good answer for them as to why it would be nice for them to do these conversions.
Good point on the version history. But. Even if I don't do a conversion to GDocs, the .docx still has the capability to see version history when uploaded to GDrive. Still not a good selling point on "why" to convert .docx documents to Google Docs.
In this how-to guide, we'll take you through converting your documents to the current standard using Microsoft Office. These principles also apply to Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint documents. The same process can be used to update them.
In general terms, the .docx format is much safer than the .doc format. As a result, some systems, including t4 (the University website Content Management System (CMS)), may prevent you from uploading .doc files for security reasons. We should save and convert our existing Microsoft Word files to the .docx file format.
I am currently working on modernizing our TW deliverables, and I was wondering if there is a tool to cleanly and easily convert Word DocX files to Markdown and/or Asciidoc, and at the same, split them into files, so that I could convert them to static HTML sites using Docusaurus or Jekyll for example.
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Converting a LaTeX document into a .docx document is not difficult, but it may mix up the layout of your thesis partly. This means that you need to check the layout afterwards. Next to that, you have to implement all the changes made by the editor in your original LaTeX file.
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I am using the pandoc command line utility and got so far as converting the document, i.e., by doing something like pandoc tex-file.tex -s -o word-file.docx. That worked, but didn't seem to recognize the document class, which is a file in the same directory with a name like class.cls.
DOCX is the file extension of the Office Open XML documents, an XML-based, zipped file format developed by Microsoft for its word processing program, Microsoft Word. DOCX files can contain formatted text, charts, tables, images, and other document elements.
Follow steps below if you have installed Vertopal CLI on your macOS system.
- Open macOS Terminal.
- Either cd to DOCX (Word) file location or include path to your input file.
- Paste and execute the command below, substituting in your DOCX_INPUT_FILE name or path. $ vertopal convert DOCX_INPUT_FILE --to latex
Follow steps below if you have installed Vertopal CLI on your Windows system.
- Open Command Prompt or Windows PowerShell.
- Either cd to DOCX (Word) file location or include path to your input file.
- Paste and execute the command below, substituting in your DOCX_INPUT_FILE name or path. $ vertopal convert DOCX_INPUT_FILE --to latex
Follow steps below if you have installed Vertopal CLI on your Linux system.
- Open Linux Terminal.
- Either cd to DOCX (Word) file location or include path to your input file.
- Paste and execute the command below, substituting in your DOCX_INPUT_FILE name or path. $ vertopal convert DOCX_INPUT_FILE --to latex
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