Re: Formatting gone when converting docx to pdf

Re: Formatting gone when converting docx to pdf

[John MacFarlane]

You're not doing anything wrong. Just read the
last paragraph of the Description in
https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html

If you just want a PDF that looks exactly like the
docx itself, pandoc isn't the tool to use.  On a Mac,
you could use Word itself (print to PDF).  This might
be scriptable, I don't know.  Perhaps LibreOffice
could also do it.

Ernest Mueller <ernest.mueller-cB/ihCqopeHDvqaGTl//5+IFQsAYV+Tm@public.gmane.org>
writes:

> Hey all, just getting started with pandoc today with the goal of a Lambda docx->pdf generator for an app I’m working on.
>
> To try this out, I installed pandoc 2.7.3 and mactex on my Mac, slapped out a new Word doc straight out of the default Word template library, and ran
>
> pandoc "Parent 1 Info.docx" -o Parent.pdf
>
> But while the Word file has formatting, images, colors and such, the resulting PDF is a sad shrunken version of it without those things…. (.docx and pdf attached)
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> My goal is to do some form-fill with docxtemplater and then just print some “send to customer ready” PDFs direct off of them. 
>
> Thanks,
> Ernest
>
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Re: Formatting gone when converting docx to pdf

[Ernest Mueller]

Ah, ok, thanks. 

Ernest

> On Jul 11, 2019, at 11:40 AM, John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> You're not doing anything wrong. Just read the
> last paragraph of the Description in
> https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html
> 
> If you just want a PDF that looks exactly like the
> docx itself, pandoc isn't the tool to use.  On a Mac,
> you could use Word itself (print to PDF).  This might
> be scriptable, I don't know.  Perhaps LibreOffice
> could also do it.
> 
> Ernest Mueller <ernest.mueller-cB/ihCqopeHDvqaGTl//5+IFQsAYV+Tm@public.gmane.org>
> writes:
> 
>> Hey all, just getting started with pandoc today with the goal of a Lambda docx->pdf generator for an app I’m working on.
>> 
>> To try this out, I installed pandoc 2.7.3 and mactex on my Mac, slapped out a new Word doc straight out of the default Word template library, and ran
>> 
>> pandoc "Parent 1 Info.docx" -o Parent.pdf
>> 
>> But while the Word file has formatting, images, colors and such, the resulting PDF is a sad shrunken version of it without those things…. (.docx and pdf attached)
>> 
>> What am I doing wrong?
>> 
>> My goal is to do some form-fill with docxtemplater and then just print some “send to customer ready” PDFs direct off of them. 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Ernest
>> 
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Re: Formatting gone when converting docx to pdf

[jeremy theler]

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"sad shrunken version"?
there are more than 50 years of research in that pdf... poor Donald Knuth

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 12:44 Ernest Mueller <
ernest.mueller-cB/ihCqopeHDvqaGTl//5+IFQsAYV+Tm@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hey all, just getting started with pandoc today with the goal of a Lambda
> docx->pdf generator for an app I’m working on.
>
> To try this out, I installed pandoc 2.7.3 and mactex on my Mac, slapped
> out a new Word doc straight out of the default Word template library, and
> ran
>
> pandoc "Parent 1 Info.docx" -o Parent.pdf
>
> But while the Word file has formatting, images, colors and such, the
> resulting PDF is a sad shrunken version of it without those things…. (.docx
> and pdf attached)
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> My goal is to do some form-fill with docxtemplater and then just print
> some “send to customer ready” PDFs direct off of them.
>
> Thanks,
> Ernest
>
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