RE: InDesign CS2 file to Web topics?

["Daniel Ng" <kjng -at- gprotechnologies -dot- com>]

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http://www.madcapsoftware.com/casestudy/MadCap_CaseStudy_IntDesign.pdf

Not affiliated in anyway, but it seems like something you might be
ineterested. 


Daniel Ng

-----Original Message-----
From: Brigitte Johnston [mailto:johnstonbrigitte -at- yahoo -dot- com] 
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 2:05 AM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: InDesign CS2 file to Web topics?

I just wanted to say THANKS to everyone who responded on this topic. All of
it was helpful, to be sure. This is going to be a longer road than the VP
wants, but it's on the agenda for 2009. In the meantime, I have some
breathing room, and alot of research/evaluating to do; if there is/was
anyone in a similar situation, I'd love to hear which way you're going (or
went) and why.

Thanks!
Brigitte Johnston


--- On Thu, 10/2/08, Brigitte Johnston <johnstonbrigitte -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:

> From: Brigitte Johnston <johnstonbrigitte -at- yahoo -dot- com>
> Subject: InDesign CS2 file to Web topics?
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008, 4:06 PM Hello all -
> 
> My company has recently produced a new (paper) manual using InDesign 
> CS2. The manual was put together by a graphic designer (with my help!) 
> because it was a rush job, and I did not know the software (and didn't 
> have it on my machine -- I've been using Word for the last 7 years!).
> So, as I'm sitting here teaching myself InDesign (I'm just getting 
> started - today), I get a call from one of our VPs asking "What would 
> it take to put portions of that manual into a format accessible via 
> the Web?" He wants parts of this manual (topics) accessible and 
> printable individually, but he does not want people to be able to just 
> print the entire manual. We'd like to have something resembling help 
> topics, not just pages of the PDF'd manual (although that may be the 
> first version, just to get them out there).
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction? Does this require 
> additional software, or can these topics be generated from the 
> InDesign files? (There are several files, one for each chapter, put 
> together as one PDF.) If we can use InDesign, what's the function I'm 
> looking for?
> The graphic designer is also looking into this, but I thought I would 
> ask all of you as well. The more I can get my hands in this the 
> better!
>  
> Many thanks in advance for any morsels of wisdom you can spare. Time 
> is of the essence (as usual).
> 
> Brigitte Johnston


      


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