RE: Paper Manual to Online Help - where to start?

[geoff -at- userdox -dot- com]

Quoting "suzy -dot- davis -at- doi -dot- vic -dot- gov -dot- au" <suzy -dot- davis -at- doi -dot- vic -dot- gov -dot- au>:
> Secondly he is very attracted to the hierarchical tree style used in online
> help applications to structure chapters so they are contained in one place,
> and can be easily selected by users.  From my limited knowledge of using
> PDFs for this purpose I don't believe we can replicate that tree structure
> without building it into the application's menu system.
> 

The tree structure of the document can be replicated in the Bookmarks of a 
PDF.  Our users really like the bookmarks.  Depending on how you generate the 
PDF......it is usually automatic for us.  Have a look here:

http://www.health.qld.gov.au/phs/Help/PDF/PDF4.htm

Cheers,

Geoff



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