Quote:
Originally Posted by joebob2a
This book has come to be through a pretty roundabout process, as you might suspect. It was originally written in M$ Word/OpenOffice, sucked into Quark Express, and then output as PDF in print form. Many corrections had happened between the original word processing files and the Quark files. I used a web utility ( https://www.online-convert.com/) to get from PDF back to Word, but then I had the page header and footers to worry about, not to mention typesetting issues like no space after periods and embedded hyphens. I seriously don't want to go back to that! I have the original Quark source, but I haven't found a conversion tool to get it out of that format.
On the Smashwords site it talks about a "nuclear option," i.e. copy and paste the entire document into a Word document and re-convert it. I'm tinkering enough right now, I may go that direction. |
I had QuarkXpress in my "Word, InDD, Writer list" - but I took it out on the basis of 'surely not'.
You can open PDF files directly in MS Word 2016/19, the result can be surprisingly good - but I suspect that's because the documents I'm thinking of were originally typed into Word by someone who didn't regard it as a Remington portable. An ex QuarkXpress PDF might not fare so well.
BR