Media/Format Conversion

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SVG to PDF

inkscape input.svg -A output.pdf

MS Word to anything

This is certain to be imperfect (see [1]) and I strongly discourage its use in the first place, but options including export from MS Word itself, opening in OpenOffice.org, KOffice, AbiWord.

ODF is of course the most open and widely understood format for richly formatted documents (apart from HTML). One issue with ODF is that it's a binary format (although its internal components are XML) and not ideal for source control. HTML often remains the best for this.