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Re: content creation
- From: Andrew Westcombe <asw at getsystems dot com>
- To: Gary Grobe <gary at grobe dot net>, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 10:28:59 +1000
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: content creation
Gary:
If you're running OSX, you can create PDFs from any doc, using Preview.
That said, Preview doesn't give you a whole lot of control, whereas Acrobat
does.
The web page -> PDF utility is nice, especially when you want to archive a
website. I wouldn't recommend it though for printed output though. The best
results we've gotten so far on the print front take the output from an RTF
build, open the file in MSWord, make any necessary adjustments, and then
distill to Acrobat. So if you've got Word you might want to try this.
I really like Acrobat. I use the catalog feature to maintain a rough and
ready collection of internal documents. This feature creates an index that
spans all the PDFs in the directories that you point it at. After that,
anyone with Acrobat Reader (they might need a free plugin) can search
across the entire collection. The searches support word stemming and
thesaurus options, so they're quite powerful.
Also, the document comparison tool in Acrobat is the best I've encountered.
Hope this helps.
At 04:11 PM 29/08/2002 -0500, Gary Grobe wrote:
I'm trying to get the doc process down to create some really nice docs.
Using vi w/ docbook is making my fingers tired, but it certainly gives me
lots of flexibility. So I went out and bought adobe acrobat thinking it
was a sort of create/edit tool for creating manuals, but turns out I think
it's only good for making documents into pdf files Probably a waste of $250.
So I converted all my docbook web pages into pdf's and they turned out ok,
but was wondering how you guys are going about this (creating some nice
user manuals) and if I understand the process correctly. Do you create the
content using whatever you wish and then import/convert them into pdf's?
Anyone know of any good gui tools where I can just concentrate on the
content (and maybe some that run on OSX, and don't cost too much)?
And if anyone can list a few points about adobe acrobat and how it fits
in, that would help calm my nerves about the cost.
Thnxs.
Andrew Westcombe
Documentation Manager
Gaming and Entertainment Technology (GET)
www.getsystems.com
ph. +61-2-9419-2000
email: asw@getsystems.com
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