Search Again: Re: User Manual From: Matt Simerson Date: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 Time: 9:15:09 pm On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Shawn Hogan wrote: > 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. :-) Very valid point. > >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. OK, I figured you had a reason. I just wanted to know what it really was. :-) > 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 don't care... you can post it if you want... :-) > > - Shawn If anyone out there is PDF challenged and would like me to convert the entire PDF to HTML, let me know. It's really not difficult. If many people think this is a worthy task I might write a script that parses all the HTML files and cleans up the navigation so that when the PDF get's updated I can easily update the HTML. Once it's brain dead easy I'll beat up Shawn and make him put it on his site and update it. :-) Matt `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Matt Simerson http://users.michweb.net/~matt MichWeb Inc. - President http://www.michweb.net The Art Farm - Technical Wizard http://www.theartfarm.com Better to dare Mighty Things and fail, than to live in __o a gray twilight where there is neither victory or _-\<,_ defeat. -- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt ......(_)/ (_) `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ------------------------------------------- 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