Templating system for documents

[Rajinder Yadav]

William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> I have to format a bunch of documents, on an on-going basis, to a
> specific format - the output format is PDF.
> 
> These documents get handed to me in MS Word files, and right now my only
> method is to paste content into existing Word files.  It's horrible -
> weirdness creeps in immediately, and there is no way to distinguish
> semantic from stylistic content.
> 
> I've used desktop publishing platforms and authored documents for the
> web, and I've also used LaTeX - none of these systems seems right for
> what I want to do.  Does anyone have a method for creating correctly
> styled documents without terrible pain and suffering?

if you're working in word, or have a copy of it this might help with pdf 
output, the free version seems to generate really good pdf

http://www.primopdf.com/index.aspx

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