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Subject:December 2002 issue of Intercom on PDF Book From:"Lorraine Kiewiet" <Lorraine -dot- Kiewiet -at- mullinconsulting -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 27 Nov 2002 08:11:18 -0800
In this month's Intercom, there is an article "Building a PDF Book".
Maybe I am not reading this with my brain fully engaged, but I am not
seeing the point of creating a manual in this way when it is so simple
to take a document and use Acrobat Distiller to create the bookmarks for
you.
Although I cannot find it in the article, perhaps the reason for this
approach is that the book is hundreds of pages long, and we all know how
Word cannot manage that. So it seems that the point is, if your company
won't buy you FrameMaker and you need a 500 page book, here's how to do
it.
The other benefit that the author mentions briefly is that he had some
difficulty with WebHelp being truly cross-platform, and some issue with
the display of graphics online.
Are my glasses foggy? Can someone shed some light on this for me?
Thanks!
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