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Re: FW: What tools to use: Single Sourcing: Robohelp vs. FrameMaker
Subject:Re: FW: What tools to use: Single Sourcing: Robohelp vs. FrameMaker From:CC <texchanchan -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:37:37 -0700 (PDT)
Re, Ed's comment
> Loathe as I am to admit it, Word is OK for printing
> small documents .... By "small" I mean less than
100
> pages.
Yes, he's right, Word is OK, but I would change
"small" to about 10 pages with graphics or 50 without
graphics -- and no complex bulleted/numbered lists
with special margins. Even with styles, and I am an
old hand with Word styles, these lists seemed to
bounce left and right on the page at random. Renumber
themselves, too.
This comment is based on experience with the Training
Manual from H*ll project, about 100 pages, lots of
screen shots.
Currently on the TMFH project, I'm making a PDF
version from two Word files, one each for the first
and second half of the book. One worked fine; in the
other, Adobe PDFMaker hit a large illustration and got
stuck in some recursive process that, by the time I
cancelled out of it, had created a 106 MEGABYTE .ps
file. Then, of course, Distiller wouldn't work.
Nothing is simple in tech pubs. The illustration in
question is a scan of a 3-column list, which used to
be just 3 columns of text. When I was out this spring
the people who took over the manual did not know how
to do columns in Word, so they scanned the list and
pasted in a picture of it--or something like that. Now
I am putting it back the way it was.
C. Crowley
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