Hi Jeremias, thanks for your answer :-) You told me what I already had expected.
On 06.11.2006 15:12, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > On 06.11.2006 09:45:31 Michael Bruns wrote: >> Hi, >> >> one of our product managers had the "brilliant" idea to support both PDF >> and RTF for some documents so that our customers can mess up the >> documents we generate to their liking...yeah, whatever. > > I know about product managers. :-) Who doesn't?!? ;-) > [...] > Yeah, well, the RTF output doesn't have the same quality as PDF. The RTF > handler itself is probably not that advanced itself but in addition to > that there are some things in XSL-FO that simply cannot be expressed in > RTF. So RTF is definitely not a complete alternative to PDF output. With > some investment the RTF output can certainly be improved but only to a > certain degree. Also keep in mind that RTF is not a very beautiful format > (to use some nice words) and should IMO not be used for new projects. If > you need to be able to change the generated file in a word processor I'd > try to find out if the Open Document Format is a possibility. That's a > better investment in the future. But FOP does not yet produce ODF. Well, I think I heard myself saying something very similar to our product manager... ;-) Anyway, his wish is that our customers can edit the documents we originally generated as PDF - and without buying some licenses from Adobe, of course. So, I know that this question is a little off-topic, but if anybody know a nice Java library which can convert PDF to DOC/RTF/HTML/whatever (as long as the user can edit it with...well...Word), any help is very much appreciated :-) Google and its colleagues mainly pointed me to some obscure shareware sites and I didn't find anything helpful, yet. Thanks again in advance :-) Cheers, Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
