Intro

Having that many different document formats demands a choice of programs for converting one into another, and doing other manipulations on documents in any of these formats. The availability and quality of such tools for a given format also make it more or less easy to deal with that format.

Table 2 gives a list of the most commonly used tools that are available for manipulating the document formats described in the previous chapter. Given are the name of the tool, the possible input- and output-formats as well as a URL where to get more information on that tool.

 

Table 2: Summary on document manipulation utilities

Tool:	Inputformat	$\mapsto$ Outputformat
Where to get
Word Internet Assistant:	ASCII, Word, RTF, ...	$\mapsto$ HTML
http://www.microsoft.com/word/internet/
latex2html:	TEX, LATEX	$\mapsto$ HTML
http://www-dsed.llnl.gov/files/programs/unix/latex2html/
frame2html:	Native FrameMaker, MIF	$\mapsto$ HTML
ftp://ftp.nta.no/pub/fm2html/fm2html.v.0.8.9a.tar.Z
WebWorks HTML Lite:	Native FrameMaker, MIF	$\mapsto$ HTML
http://www.frame.com/
rtf2html:	RTF	$\mapsto$ HTML
http://www.sunpack.com/RTF/latest/
TEX:	TEX, LATEX	$\mapsto$ DVI
ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/
dvips:	DVI	$\mapsto$ PostScript
http://www.radicaleye.com/dvips.html
Adobe Distiller:	PostScript	$\mapsto$ PDF
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/main.html
Adobe Exchange:	PDF	$\mapsto$ PDF
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/main.html
Ghostscript:	PostScript	$\mapsto$ TIFF, PDF, ...
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/ ghost/
HotDog Pro:	HTML, ASCII	$\mapsto$ HTML
http://www.sausage.com/store/indexST.htm
FrontPage:	HTML, ASCII, RTF, WinWord	$\mapsto$ HTML
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/