Subscribers can import and export all three document types of the three major office suites.

That is nine combinations, each with an import and an export. They are not symmetrical in what they cover:

• Text (Word, Docs, Writer) carries the whole document.
• Spreadsheets carry only the csv blocks (the tables).
• Slides carry only the content of the slider blocks (the slide, grid and gridItem blocks inside them).

Everything outside that subset is ignored on export. On import, a spreadsheet gives tables and a presentation gives a slider.

Below are the workflows on import and export.

2.1.1 Import

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IGD["Google Doc"] -->|"Drive export"| IDOCX[".docx"] --> DR["pandoc-php DocxReader"] --> LX["LaTeX"]
IODT[".odt"] --> OR["pandoc-php OdtReader"] --> LX

IGS["Google Sheet"] -->|"Drive export"| IXLSX[".xlsx"] --> XR["pandoc-php XlsxReader"] --> LC["LaTeX + csv files"]
IODS[".ods"] --> ODSR["OdsReader (writes an .xlsx)"] --> XR

IGSL["Google Slides"] -->|"Drive export"| IPPTX[".pptx"] --> PR["pandoc-php PptxReader"] --> SL["slider / slide LaTeX"]
IODP[".odp"] --> OPR["OdpReader"] --> SL

2.1.2 Export

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D["LaTeX2Web document"] --> WH["word HTML"] --> PD["phpdocx"] --> DOCX[".docx"]
DOCX -->|"Drive conversion"| GD["Google Docs"]
D --> PL["plainLatex"] --> PP["pandoc-php"] --> ODT[".odt"]

C["csv blocks"] --> XW["XlsxWriter"] --> XLSX[".xlsx"]
XLSX -->|"Drive conversion"| GS["Google Sheets"]
C --> OW["OdsWriter"] --> ODS[".ods"]

S["sliders"] --> SH["word HTML with slide marks"] --> SP["SlideHtmlParser"]
SP --> SDB["SlideDeckBuilder (phppptx)"] --> PPTX[".pptx"]
PPTX -->|"Drive conversion"| GSL["Google Slides"]
SP --> ODB["OdpDeckBuilder"] --> ODP[".odp"]

Documents Live exports all of its CSV data tables to a spreadsheet with one sheet per CSV data, without any sort of styling.

2.2.1 Slide export

2.2.2 Templates

$DOCUMENT$

Regitered users can upload and import to Documents Live

• a zip archive of a LaTeX project
• a zip archive of a Markdown file

You can also convert Microsoft Office documents to LaTeX using the Pandoc command line tool .

Subscribers can directly upload and import

• Microsoft Office files
• Jupyter notebooks
• un-zipped Markdown files

Office documents are converted to LaTeX using a PHP port of the Pandoc package.

3.3.1 Word

3.3.2 Excel

3.3.3 Powerpoint

All registered users can create a fully functional Documents Live web page for each document. If the user is not a subscriber, only one document can be made public. Others as kept as drafts.

Documents can be also downloaded as a zipped complete LaTeX project.

Subscribers can export their documents as Microsoft Word documents. LaTeX equations are translated to Word equations.

The can also export to PDF files. Note that, in this export, equations are not supported.

Documents can be exported to Markdown files; users can also copy directly the Markdown to the clipboard.

Users can define multiple export options for Word and PDF exports. These option mainly define the fonts that will be used for the exported documents.

Options are created in the user account settings, and are configued for each document. If no option is selected, the exporter will use default settings.

Word fonts must be present in the target system for Word export. For PDF export, users can select Google fonts .

Word templates

Word exports can be embedded in a pre-existing Word document. This Word document can be uploaded in the user’s settings. After that, it can be incorporated in a Word export option in the user’s settings.

The Word document MUST contain the $DOCUMENT$ string. If this document has been chosen as a template in a Word export options, the resulting exported Word document will be the original template where the previous string has been replaced by the document content.

This is especially useful for document branding.