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Subject:RE: CD Release of Documentation From:"Mike Hiatt" <mhiatt -at- vocaldata -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 22 May 2002 13:57:19 -0500
As previous respondents have stated you can use either an HTML doc or a PDF as the starting point (or any other document or format that allows you to link to your PDF documents. I'm creating a file in Frame for PDF that has a small version of our document cover art with the doc title (on top or under I can't remember at the moment). In the Acrobat I will link the images in the PDF to the individual documents in my document library folder.
To get the starting doc to open when they insert the CD, you will need an autorun.inf and the shellexec.exe. The autorun.inf must be in the root directory on your CD, otherwise the CD player can't find it. The shellexec.exe and your starting doc can be in any folder you want as long as your autorun.inf tells CD player where on the CD to find them.
Mike Hiatt
Manager, Tech Pubs
VocalData, Inc.
Dallas, TX (yep, that one) mailto:mhiatt -at- vocaldata -dot- com
www.vocaldata.com
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From: Snyder Heater, Regina [mailto:HeaterR -at- us -dot- tigplc -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 1:20 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: CD Release of Documentation
Good afternoon,
My company would like to release our product manuals on CD. The manuals are
created in Framemaker 6 and then distilled to PDF. Simple enough. However,
I would like to make the CD a little more than a listing of the file names.
I'd like to create an interface that loads when the CD is run that allows
access to the various manuals. (Click on a link to the manual type stuff.)
However, I'm not sure how to proceed with that. One thought I had was to
create a PDF that acts as the interface to the manuals. Is this standard
procedure? Or do you have better, strong, faster ideas? <grin> I'd
appreciate any examples/help you can offer.
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