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RE: PDF to RTF extraction (Anybody have any experience with Iceni 's G emini?)
Subject:RE: PDF to RTF extraction (Anybody have any experience with Iceni 's G emini?) From:"Brierley, Sean" <Sean -at- Quodata -dot- Com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:46:41 -0500
That's very nice but:
1) Either editing the manual is permitted
2) Or editing the manual is not permitted
If 1), then distribute the source files, don't make people jump through PDF
editing hoops. To do the latter is ridiculous, who are you fooling? To do
the latter is a waste of company resources, and deliberately so.
If 2) then distribute the PDF with instructions that none may edit it.
Cheers,
Sean
sean -at- quodata -dot- com
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From: Sanjay Srikonda [SMTP:sanjay -dot- srikonda -at- kiodex -dot- com]
The reasoning behind NOT distributing the actual source is that the
parent
company can then say that the manual being produced IS the official
release,
anything used ONLY internally and changed by staff via PDF---->RTF
conversion is allowable but only at the other division's risk.
Plus, it's
also up to them (the other division) to maintain an up-to-date
manual that
they've customized from the PDFs to RTF via their conversion.
Sometimes,
it's just not very easy to argue that only one version of a manual
should
exist if you've got a manager over you in another department in a
physically
separated location saying they'd like to customize the manual for
their own
use.
<snip>
IPCC 01, the IEEE International Professional Communication Conference,
October 24-27, 2001 at historic La Fonda in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN UNTIL MARCH 15. http://ieeepcs.org/2001/
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