I need to solve a weird problem, and I was wondering if anyone around here has any ideas.
I have to be able to spit out documents from a program/script. These documents need to look nice as a PDF (printed out on paper), and they may include a lot of graphics and visual tweaks. In the past I've just written out a LaTeX file, and life was great. Here's the twist. In addition to PDF output, I want to be able to export to a format that others can comfortably edit. Good formats would be something like Word or HTML. Ideally, the Word document should look as similar as possible to the PDF document. The problems I'm seeing are that things like HTML are terrible for getting consistent printed output, and things like Word are terrible for exporting to (with graphics, etc.). Also, I would like to spend as little time as possible tweaking this secondary file (I'll be sticking to PDF for the most part). Does anyone have any thoughts? I know this sounds like too much to hope for, but it's possible that there's some cool way to deal with this. Let's here some ideas, both good and bad. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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