Search Again: Re: User Manual From: Shawn Hogan Date: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 Time: 8:40:28 pm Matt Simerson wrote: >OK Shawn, you've got my curiousity piqued. Exactly WHAT electronic format >do you have the Manual in that allows you to export to PDF's and won't >allow you to <cut/copy/paste> text nor allow you to export the text? Yes, you can cut/paste of course, but I don't feel like spending hours on making the formatting look right. :-) >Forget it, I just used my brain to determine that you use FrameMaker 5.5. >According to Adobe's web site, Framemaker will allow you to import AND >export Microsoft Word 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, and 7.0 files. If you upgrade to >version 5.5.6, you can even export MS Word 8.0 files. Well, frankly because it looks like crap. Yes, you can export in all sorts of different formats, but they don't work very well *AT ALL*. It looks so crappy and crazy that it's not even worth it. Plus, each Chapter is a separate file, so it would be split into 23 different files... >One question though, since Framemaker will allow you to import a PDF into >an existing document, will it allow you to make alterations in another >layer or something? Huh? I don't know much about PDF... hehe >Lastly, how about a HTML version of the documentation Shawn? Framemaker >has a HTML export feature. If it doesn't work, you can always use >Myrimidon. Just for grins I just output the first 50 pages of the manual >to see how it would look. Because the HTML output of a FrameMaker document looks like UTTER crap. Myrimidon looks much better... >http://users.michweb.net/~matt/Optigold/1._Optigold-ISP.pdf41.html > >I'm not thrilled with the navigation that it throws in by default but it >wouldn't be hard to <awk/grep/sed> the html files to adjust it. If you >have a problem with me posting that, just say the word and I'll nuke it. I don't care... you can post it if you want... :-) - Shawn ------------------------------- Shawn D. Hogan President, Data Point Solutions http://www.data-point.com (619) 452-3696 ICQ: 8319647 ------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe and list archive please visit http://www.data-point.com/lists -------------------------------------------

Messages In This Thread: User Manual by Alexi Touloumis on Mar 23, 1999 at 5:41:29 pm Re: User Manual by Shawn Hogan on Mar 23, 1999 at 5:50:23 pm Re: User Manual by Mark V. Busnelli on Mar 23, 1999 at 6:10:25 pm Re: User Manual by Matt Simerson on Mar 23, 1999 at 8:08:40 pm Re: User Manual by Matt Simerson on Mar 23, 1999 at 8:21:07 pm Re: User Manual by Shawn Hogan on Mar 23, 1999 at 8:40:28 pm Re: User Manual by Matt Simerson on Mar 23, 1999 at 9:15:09 pm User manual by ZooNet Internet Services on Sep 24, 1999 at 10:20:03 am Re: User manual by Shawn Hogan on Sep 24, 1999 at 10:31:03 am User Manual by Colin Rees on Nov 6, 2003 at 9:58:38 am