I implemented this for a large R&D lab. We produced several hundred (if not thousand) documents per year, and the LaTeX Users' community there wanted to be able to produce documents using 'tex as well as WYSIWYG software.
The OP was right in that a well-defined workflow is essential. Part of this is the process, but you may also need to think about training and using a common repository, and how to implement corporate design.
Process
We implemented a process that allowed people to work in LaTeX and then switch to .docx for collaborators.
- Define a class file that contains the correct formatting, etc, using article, report or book classes. Include the minimum number of up-to-date packages in the class and add the
nag package to make sure that you (and other users) can see that those packages are not deprecated.
- Create a template showing how to use the class file
- Create an SVN (or git, or whatever) repository for the class and template files, and distribute the URL of the repository to LaTeX users
- Create documents using the lab-standard class file
- Convert the tex files to .docx using Pandoc, which works on Windows, Mac, and Linux
- Get edits and peer reviews done on the .docx
- Transfer edits from the .doc or .docx document back in to 'tex manually, and complete the PDF production in LaTeX.
- Tagging the document using Adobe Acrobat for Section 508 compliance (accessibility).
N.B. Using one of the web-based editors like sharelatex.com or overleaf.com can remove the need for 5-7, especially now that they have rather good review tools.
Challenges
There were a couple of challenges we had to face to get this adopted.
- Getting the editors and reviewers something that fit with their existing process, hence the use of the .docx format
- Figuring out how to get the same class file(s) to all users, hence the SVN repository
- Making sure people know how to use it, hence the template
- Figuring out tools that let people collaborate. But that's a whole other post!
508 Compliance / Structured PDFs
The one thing that is still causing trouble is 508-compliance. I have been working (slowly) on using the pdfcomment package to add tooltips and modifying the accessibility package so that documents are accessible. My test PDF documents sometimes pass automated testing in Adobe Acrobat...
Repository
I've put a set of demo documents in a Github repository which may be helpful.
Note re. Pandoc
3 Dec 2017: Originally I suggested the use of latex2rtf instead of Pandoc. I am now editting this answer to suggest Pandoc as I find Pandoc is kept up to date, works well, and I like the flexibility to choose from many more input and output file types.
use one of the converters pdf to doc, they give better results than with an intermediate html format. The best converter seems to be Nitro PDF, they have a test version.
Best Answer
If you don't want to deal with a suitable resolution, I suggest using a vector graphic format to export your graphs.
I don't use open office, but in its sibling, LibreOffice, the following export options are available:
While I don't know all of these formats, I can say that
epsandsvgare vector based. Please see the following two questions about how to use these formats in latex:How to include SVG diagrams in LaTeX?
eps figures with pdflatex
(and whatever you decide to use, don't use jpeg for graphs)