Re: Line breaks - HTML doc with printer-friendly PDF?

[Sandy Harris <sandy -at- storm -dot- ca>]

Tom Maas wrote:
> 
> Can any of you technical writers relate to this situation?  Perhaps you can
> help me...
> 
> When I left my CAD job and joined the company's technical writing ranks
> about six months ago I learned that every HTML technical document (mostly
> text and tables) published here also has a companion PDF document used
> solely for printing.
> 
> My question right away was, why do we need this redundancy?

I just maintain the HTML, then produce PDFs from that source with htmldoc.
The tool is free from www.easysw.com, though they charge for support.

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