General ⇒ Output to .doc .rtf or convert .pdf to .doc (word)

[Eenzc]

This may sound like heresy on a Latex forum.

But I have written a document in Latex and my clients (Lawyers) have requested that I provide them with a word copy so they can make changes to it.

These people will not be reasoned with and sending them the .tex files is not acceptable.

I've downloaded a free program (pdf to word converter)

http://www.hellopdf.com/

This does a good job of automating the copy/paste function for the text but messes up the pictures completely turning a 3 meg document into a 400+ meg one.

Is there a simple way to compile to .rtf or similar word interpretable file format?

Or is there a similar open source tool out there that works for pictures too?

Thanks.

[T3.]

This is not at all a heresy. In fact, this is quite common request. A list of available converters can be found here.

I have tried latex2rtf and tex4ht. Both work well for non-math text. You will additionally need 'convert' utility from ImageMagick for your graphics.

latex2rtf is faster and generates rtf directly but document formating is more visual in nature. tex4ht can generate either an OpenOffice file which can be converted in Writer to doc format or a html file (use with "html,word" option) which can be opened in Word directly.

Cheers,

Tomek