hi,
i'm not sure but you can try with itext http://sourceforge.net/projects/itext/ or pdfbox http://www.pdfbox.org/!
if you want a commercial tool, you can try this one http://www.01net.com/telecharger/windows/Bureautique/editeur_de_texte/fiches/27858.html
(but i hope you speak french ;))
good luck.
2006/11/6, Michael Bruns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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
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