Peter Senfon has written a quite elaborate
roundup of word processing document converters
. As a test case he used documents created with the ICE content management system that make heavy use of styles and provide a good use case for professional, production-ready documents. The converters under consideration were:
With the big players slowly moving to XML and structured document formats, a world where seamless automatic conversion between document fomats is possible, becomes imaginable.

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