PDFs as online help?

Subject: PDFs as online help?
From: Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:25:04 -0500 (CDT)

Do any of you use PDFs for your online help?

Is it possible to link to topics within a PDF for context-sensitive help?

PDFs are attractive to me, for use as an online help system, because you can control the display of special characters in them. You can be sure what your end user will see.
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