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Excellent! Thanks, I've been waiting for this one for a while. Very useful indeed.--[[User:Milan|Milan]] 04:04, 25 Jan 2007 (NZST) | Excellent! Thanks, I've been waiting for this one for a while. Very useful indeed.--[[User:Milan|Milan]] 04:04, 25 Jan 2007 (NZST) | ||
| + | :Lemme know how it goes, I'll add it onto the AWG if it's good - that Word2MediaWiki test looked pretty good too... still would need some post-conversion attention to make docs consistent, but it would probably take 90% of the work out of it. --[[User:Nad|Nad]] 04:37, 25 Jan 2007 (NZST) | ||
| + | ::Yeah I was quite impressed with that Word2MediaWiki converter, had some problems with the open office ones, which meant I couldn't get them to work. Best to use the MS converter anyway if the client is using MS, other wise I am converting twice. There was some ugly formatting in the source doc (floating boxes) which created some bad wikicode, but that can easily be remedied. I am very happy about the way it handles tables. Regarding the PDF export, it doesn't like hack-jobs like my portals but it does a good job on articles like "About the project". It even does hyperlinked TOCs :-). But it doesn't handle wiki-links too well, maybe that's just a matter adjusting some setting. Haven't seen how it handles images yet...--[[User:Milan|Milan]] 05:03, 25 Jan 2007 (NZST) | ||
Latest revision as of 05:03, 25 January 2007
Excellent! Thanks, I've been waiting for this one for a while. Very useful indeed.--Milan 04:04, 25 Jan 2007 (NZST)
- Lemme know how it goes, I'll add it onto the AWG if it's good - that Word2MediaWiki test looked pretty good too... still would need some post-conversion attention to make docs consistent, but it would probably take 90% of the work out of it. --Nad 04:37, 25 Jan 2007 (NZST)
- Yeah I was quite impressed with that Word2MediaWiki converter, had some problems with the open office ones, which meant I couldn't get them to work. Best to use the MS converter anyway if the client is using MS, other wise I am converting twice. There was some ugly formatting in the source doc (floating boxes) which created some bad wikicode, but that can easily be remedied. I am very happy about the way it handles tables. Regarding the PDF export, it doesn't like hack-jobs like my portals but it does a good job on articles like "About the project". It even does hyperlinked TOCs :-). But it doesn't handle wiki-links too well, maybe that's just a matter adjusting some setting. Haven't seen how it handles images yet...--Milan 05:03, 25 Jan 2007 (NZST)
