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.
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.
I'm not sure the exact situation you're running the program in, what
type of documents you're making or who's going to be editing them, but
depending on your needs, Apache FOP may be able to do what you're
looking for.
FOP: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/
I only played with it once trying to do SVG-->PDF conversions, but
what I understand of it is that it takes a specially formatted XML
file and is able to process it to a bunch of other formats. Of
interest would probably be RTF and PDF. MS Word and countless others
support RTF, of course. RTF may not be able to handle complex
formatting though.
Output formats: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.20.5/output.html
If RTF were good engouh, I think Latex does RTF too....but I'm not sure.
Hope that helps somewhat,
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