[texhax] LaTeX to InDesign

[Tom Schneider]

Dave:

> I already have considerable experience with various paths
> from LaTeX to Word (mixes of computer translation, e.g.,
> TTH, and manual editing).  A publisher has again asked
> me to provide a Word file, but his ultimate goal is input
> into InDesign.  Maybe they can copy from pages of a LaTeX
> generated PDF and paste into InDesign, especially if I
> turn off hyphenation in LaTeX so they don't have to deal
> with word breaks at the wrong place in InDesign's line
> folding.  My question for this list is does anyone have
> any special insight about more or less productive paths
> from LaTeX to InDesign.  (PS, I'm not interested in trying
> to educate the publisher about accepting LaTeX input.)

Converting with TTH and editing the html would be a lot of work!

Why not use latex2rtf?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex2rtf/
http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/docu_1_9_14.html

Then you just give them the RTF instead of a word file.  RTF, at
least, is an ascii format - not binary like word.  Scott Prahl has
been extremely helpful in upgrading it to cover new things (like
color).

Tom

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