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Subject:Re: Paper Manual to Online Help - where to start? From:"Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 25 May 2004 12:30:13 -0400
Once and for all: To create ordinary PDFs you don't need FrameMaker,
OpenOffice.org, or even Acrobat. There are tons of free, cheap, or
open-source tools available creating PDFs from Word or any Windows
application, including some that work as a print driver.
Of course, if your docs require more than basic PDF features, or if you
are just a PDF geek who wants to tinker, you'd be better off with the
full version of Acrobat.
For example, I don't know of any non-Adobe tools that easily provide
advanced features like TOC/index hyperlinks, although I suppose the
open-source tools are closing in on that target (I haven't checked lately).
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