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Subject:RE: Outputting to HTML and PDF formats? From:Megan Golding <mgolding -at- secureworks -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:33:07 -0500
My experience has shown that although Word is capable of converting to HTML,
the output is not very pretty. I do not view the native Word -> HTML
converter as a good solution for final product delivery.
I just found an interesting product on the web that you may be able to use.
Gohtm.com (http://www.gohtm.com) offers a free source -> HTML conversion
application that is web based. Currently, this service is free. You upload
your source file (Word, PDF, among other formats are accepted), they do the
conversion, and return e-mail the output. The whole process took me less
than 10 minutes. This will give you "simply...open the manual in a browser"
option that you suspect your client needs.
Regards,
Megan Golding
SecureWorks, Inc.
(mgolding -at- secureworks -dot- net)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johanna [mailto:chazjo -at- magma -dot- ca]
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 10:45 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Outputting to HTML and PDF formats?
>
>
> I am developing a manual and was originally planning
> on doing it in Word as requested. However, the client
> has now come back and said it would be _nice_ if the
> manual could be output to HTML and PDF. Their user
> interface is a web browser so I am not sure if they
> want something hyperlinked and essentially online help
> or if they simply want to be able to open the manual
> in a browser.
>
> In any case, is Word up to outputting in HTML format
> or am I looking at using another type of software?
>
> Thanks,
> Johanna
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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