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My company wants to create a single index for all of the publications in
a document set. This includes installation guides, upgrade guides, API
guides, (all FrameMaker-generated PDFs) and Online Help systems (WebHelp
HTML generated from RoboHelp). Potentially, there are 8-10 PDFs
generated by FrameMaker and 8-10 Help systems (HTML generated by
RoboHelp) in each document set. We want to automatically generate a
single stand-alone index to cover all of these docs.
Does anyone know of a tool that can create such an index? Are we
dreaming? Or is there another way to make all of this searchable (that's
the goal -- to help users search for and find info)? Any help or ideas
would be greatly appreciated!
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There was a time when I would have heartily recommended eHelp's
RoboInfo, which allows you to add content in .pdf, .mif, .hml, .doc, etc
to a single "online help" project with consolidated searching and
indexing. The product is still available from Macromedia at http://www.macromedia.com/software/roboinfo/ but with a strong warning
of CAVEAT EMPTOR!
Lisa H.
GTA, ON
"The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words."
George Eliot
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