[pdftex] Graphics for pdflatex and memoir.sty

[Olaf Dietrich]

John R. Culleton (2006-01-03T09:00:52-0500):
>
> Commentary:
> Why does an old LaTeX avoider like me turn to pdflatex? Well the
> book is in MSWord Doc format with lots of italics and footnotes. 
> The easiest way to transmute this lead into gold while keeping
> those features intact is to:
> 1. Save it as an rtf file from Open Office.
> 2. Use rtf2latex2e to create the raw LaTeX file.
> 3. Edit the heck out of that file to remove the inevitable
> superfluous code. 

Have you checked writer2latex with the -ultraclean or -clean
option? That might reduce the amount of superfluous code, see
<URL:http://www.hj-gym.dk/~hj/writer2latex/>

Olaf