Martin A. Hansen wrote:
I am still so disappointed by lyx->word conversion so I was looking at
pdf2rtf converters. There appear to be several commercial ones and
some open
source ones.
Anybody knows how well these works?
I didn't know there were commercial ones. For the open
source ones, just download the lot and try them all.
For commercial ones, write to the vendor and ask specifically
about the features you care about. Perhaps you can send them
a demo document for conversion - then you buy _if_ the result
is good.
I think some kind of latex->rtf converter would be better than a
pdf->rtf converter. This because PDF don't contain logical markup.
A converter will have to guess. Is a numeral set in a tiny font
a footnote marker, or is it an exponent? Impossible to say!
The latex file contains all logical markup though, so at least
a good conversion to rtf is possible. That don't mean a
good converter exists though.
I am in particular interested in getting body text, sections, lists,
figures, references, tables and footnotes correct (in that order).
(latex2rtf makes a horrible job imho - citations gets fubar)
And you really have to convert to rtf? A pdf file won't do?
Helge Hafting
