Google has made Google Docs more open and now its far more easier to take any file in Google Docs to other formats. Google calls it liberalization in its blog 
This is what Google has to say about the launch:
A couple weeks ago, the Google Docs team launched a multi-file uploader to make it much easier for you to put files into the cloud. Today we’re launching a new feature to make it much easier to get your content out: “Convert, Zip and Download.”
Select one or more files and then click on “Export” from the “More Actions” menu. Next, pick the format (e.g. PDF, Microsoft Word, etc) you want for your exported files. Finally, click “Continue” and we’ll give you a nice zip file to download that has all your content.
For now, you can “export” up to 500 MB of content in a single zip file, which is over 20,000 typical files. Sometimes it takes us a few minutes to export really large amounts of files, so instead of making you wait, we added an “Email when ready” option. We’ll send you a link when the zip file is ready.
Below is the picture of how it would look like:
When I tried exporting one of my files, I just got few options like MS Word, Rich Text Format, PDF etc.
Upon closing RTF and clicking ‘continue’, it directly downloaded the file in RTF. May be I am missing something here, or Google is yet to launch it fully.
This is a welcome step from Google. I am loving it.
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