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P.S. I do not want to take all of my Word chucks and create a massive DOCX
from them, as I haven't the patience to deal with Word crashing every time
I blink. But if I have to........
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> I've spent the past several weeks recreating a several-hundred page user
> manual from another company's PDF version. Note that there is no Framemaker
> presence here.
>
> Because of the many changes I had to make, my methodology was to chunk the
> OEM manual into small bits and rework it in Word. I thought I would then
> create several smaller PDFs from my Word docs, then combine the PDFS using
> Acrobat Pro. So far, so good.
>
> In the middle of the night it occurred to me... how am I going to index
> the final user manual? I haven't a clue. I'd like to avoid Frame if I can
> (due to internal issues), but will make a pitch for it if there isn't a
> better way.
>
> Ideas?
>
>
>
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