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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Dear Sirs:</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">I am an astrodynamicist at Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale, and need to use and make available to others here documents from the U.S. Naval Observatory describing time systems and reference frame transformations which are stored in the TeX format. Can you recommend a Windows software application that converts files from the TeX format to either .rtf or .doc that can be used by Microsoft Word, or .pdf that can be used by Adobe Acrobat?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">A constraint imposed by Lockheed Martin is that the software application must be produced in and distributed from the U.S. I have found applications that are used primarily to compose documents in the TeX format, e.g., Scientific Workplace from MacKichian Software, but cannot import any TeX file and perform the conversion. The application Tex2Word from Chikrii Softlab appears to perform the function I need, but the company is based in Germany, so Lockheed Martin will not permit us to use it.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Thank You,</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Mark Frank</FONT>
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