PDF<-->MS Word Production

[vfulco]

Can't find an 'enhancement' label but one of biggest issues as an R user and professional resume writer is that too many employers and agencies ask for MS Word versions. While I abhor that format, it is reality. The great LaTex typsetting gets destroyed running through Pandoc for .doc/.docx. Although Rmarkdown is supposed to be able to render into Word nicely with a reference doc, that isn't the case. I must have 10 Word templates I can't wrestle into use because of this.

If anyone has trailheads on nearly identical formats creation, would appreciate! Thanks all.

[bwiernik]

A non programmatic approach is to open the PDF using Word. Word does a pretty great job converting PDFs in many cases.

[weisisheng]

Thanks very much. I am a libreoffice user having sworn off MSFT products whenever possible. I will look into it though.

[weisisheng]

Reviewing the docs, I didn't see a yaml option to retain the intermediate.tex file, similar to plain vanilla Rmd-->pdf rendering, which can then be converted easily using pandoc.

Am I missing something (before I modify code myself)?

[mitchelloharawild]

It's the same as a plain rmd, `keep_tex: true`

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[weisisheng]

Hmm...when I run this, the intermediate one is not created (which I assume incorporates the YAML personal data). Do I need to hard-code it in the package? Note: github may not show the below as indented although I have in the usual yaml way.

output:
vitae::twentyseconds:
keep_tex: true

[mitchelloharawild]

For this, I don't think it is appropriate to provide tools for converting pdf output to word. Instead, word specific templates can be supported (requiring #93 to be implemented first).
If you have some word templates that you'd like supported, you can propose them in #4

[mitchelloharawild]

Closing as conversion from PDF to MS Word will not be supported. Instead, word specific templates can be provided as extensions (however this is not a priority, HTML templates will come next).