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Re: December 2002 issue of Intercom on PDF BookIn 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. The point of the article has nothing to do with whether MS Word can manage a large. (It can; I've done it often.) The point, which I thought was stated quite clearly in the article, is that delivering one large PDF file is not always the best solution for the users. Why force users to download a several-megabyte file when all they want is one chapter or one section? It's often better to deliver a collection of PDFs with a contents page from which the user can select the required chapter or section and download that. The article describes a way to do this. I enjoyed reading it because I had independently invented a similar solution for a client, to solve the same problem. Regards, Jean Jean Hollis Weber jean -at- jeanweber -dot- com The Technical Editors' Eyrie http://www.jeanweber.com/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Check out SnagIt - The Screen Capture Standard! Download a free 30-day trial from http://www.techsmith.com/rdr/txt/twr Find out what all the other tech writers, including Dan, already know! Order RoboHelp X3 in November and receive $100 mail in rebate, FREE WebHelp Merge Module and the new RoboPDF - add powerful PDF output functionality to RoboHelp X3. Order online today at http://www.ehelp.com/techwr-l --- You are currently subscribed to techwr-l as: archive -at- raycomm -dot- com To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-techwr-l-obscured -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Send administrative questions to ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com -dot- Visit http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ for more resources and info.
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