Intro

Having that many different document formats asks for a whole lot 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.

This section tries to give a list of the most commonly used tools that are available for manipulating the document formats described in the previous chapter, concentrating on the following aspects for each tool:

• Where to get: Postal and/or email address, URL of web page and/or FTP-site, if freely available
• Supported formats: List of which formats the described tool can read and write.
• Pros and Cons: Description of the tool's strenghts and flaws
• Tips & Tricks: Often some features are non-obvious; if there are some such for the given tool, they are listed here.
• Fixes: Some of the publically available tools can (and have) to be tuned to produce proper output. Sometimes it's even necessary to modify the source code. If so, references to these patches are listed here.
• Other tools: List of other tools which can be used together with the program described here.