Appropedia:Porting formatted content to MediaWiki: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:10, 3 November 2007

Try saving in OpenOffice 2.3 or greater, using (export to?) MediaWiki format. If this is inadequate (e.g. for dealing with images and references) then we have worked out some VB macro code, and will post everything we know. First need to upgrade and try out the feature.

Images

Are images saved automatically during file export? Tags to indicate image location?

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-'''This page is for exploring ways of speeding this process. The main help page (which needs updating) is at: [[Help:Porting content from PDF format]].'''
+Try saving in OpenOffice 2.3 or greater, using (export to?) MediaWiki format. If this is inadequate (e.g. for dealing with images and references) then we have worked out some VB macro code, and will post everything we know. First need to upgrade and try out the feature.
-Acrobat has an "export as text" function which makes this easier - save to RTF or Word format. If you open this in OpenOffice v 2.3 or greater, you should be able to export it as MediaWiki format. (Does this work smoothly?)
-Useful links:
-*[http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/8.0/Professional/help.html?content=WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7eeb.html Export PDFs as (formated) text] - help.adobe.com. Note: "Images in the PDF are saved by default in JPEG format." Is their location saved? Is there a way of smoothing the process of locating the image in the document?
-* [[User talk:LeissKG]] - discussion on alternative techniques and issues in porting PDFs - OCR, text export.
 ==Images==
-Are images saved automatically during file export? It appears so for [http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/8.0/Standard/help.html?content=WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7ef2.html exporting to HTML/XML], at least. Do any of the formats include tags to indicate image location?
+Are images saved automatically during file export? Tags to indicate image location?
 [[Category:Porting]]