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If I recall, Becca was asking if any of us saw a trend with user docs
moving toward electronic reader, and commenting as an aside that she
thought HTML would be a good skill to have.
Personally I believe the iPad revolution is upon us. I went to the
Apple Store today, and saw that every display model included an iPad
mounted into the counter with an interactive specs sheet. There may
have been video, but I didn't see any.
There was a tab, which, when pressed, called an associate to the
station to help you.
I see that as a telling sign of where our user docs could be moving to.
-Tony
On 2011-06-08, at 9:33 AM, Mike McCallister <workingwriter -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Eliot Kimber's DITA4Publishers project lets you use the DITA Open Toolkit to
> produce EPUB and Kindle files from any DITA map. As part of this project,
> he's made a Word-to-DITA converter that I haven't yet played with. For the
> latest version, and a User Guide:
>
>http://dita4publishers.sourceforge.net/
>
> Mike McCallister
> Now available: "WordPress in Depth" (with Bud Smith)
> Notes from the Metaverse: http://metaverse.wordpress.com
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:07 AM, McLauchlan, Kevin <
> Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
>
>> They've got rotating ads in the big square box on the left
>> of the page. The first one I hit looked like part of the
>> site (yes, I know that's the idea); AVS Document Converter.
>>
>> Watch your footing that you don't step in something...
>>
>> I dunno.
>> Despite their Privacy Policy, I would be leery of finding
>> my uploaded content in those cheap'n'sleazy article sites
>> that are all over the web.
>>
>> But hey, it happens anyway, no matter where you post...
>>
>> When somebody has used 2epub for a while, I'd appreciate
>> hearing about the overall experience. It's probably perfectly
>> legit.
>>
>> Meanwhile, I don't quite get their membership thing. They don't
>> appear to have forums or other content... unless it's just
>> to post a rating.
>>
>> Interesting.
>>
>> - kevin
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: beelia
>>
>>>
>>> I haven't used this, but FYI:
>>>
>>> http://www.2epub.com/
>>>
>>> Bee
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Roberta Hennessey
>>> <rahennessey -at- gmail -dot- com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Please keep us in the loop. This process would be very interesting to
>>> hear
>>>> about. Thanks for your input.
>>>>
>>>> Bobbi
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Chantel Brathwaite <
>>>> brathwaitec -at- castupgrade -dot- com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Becca,
>>>>>
>>>>> I haven't done this yet, but I've heard rumblings about it from our
>>>>> customer, so that might come down the pike within the next year.
>>> It
>>>> seems
>>>>> pretty straightforward for the Kindle ... The system I am
>>> documenting
>>>> is
>>>>> spread out over several rooms and sometimes two floors, so them
>>> being
>>>> able
>>>>> to carry a manual around on a Kindle, Nook, or IPad would be really
>>>> helpful
>>>>> for them.
>>>>>
>>>>> Chantel
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 6/7/2011 3:48 PM, Becca wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Has anyone experimented with putting their documents in e-format
>>> to be
>>>>>> read on the Kindle, Nook, or iPad?
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