Re: anyone else generating web help from Confluence?

[John G <john -at- garisons -dot- com>]

We use scroll versions pretty extensively, and it definitely has its kinks.
Lots of room for improvement, but if you're careful, it does everything OK.

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
wrote:

> I got it working without much trouble. The default chunking was
> inappropriate for my purposes, otherwise it was fairly simple.
>
> I'm not sure Scroll Versions is ready for prime time. Scroll PDF
> Exporter works great.
>
> They've adjusted their prices so that they're not giving away the
> 10-user version any more. I think it's ridiculous that these tools are
> priced by the number of Confluence users rather than the number of
> plugin users.
>
> https://www.k15t.com/software/scroll-docbook-exporter/pricing
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Mark Giffin <mgiffin -at- earthlink -dot- net> wrote:
> > Oh, is that how k15t handles webhelp output? With the DocBook toolchain?
> The
> > DocBook toolchain is pretty solid if you want to work with it. You seem
> like
> > someone who could bend it to his will, Robert. You could get Bob
> Stayton's
> > DocBook XSL book, he's the top guy for that. He has a thorough website
> for
> > that, too.
> >
> > I recently heard from someone who uses them that the k15t Confluence tech
> > pubs plugins are pretty workable for a tech pubs workflow but I haven't
> used
> > them. Just using plain Confluence for ordinary technical publications
> seems
> > overly messy to me. As far as I can see, k15t pretty much owns the market
> > for that.
> >
> > I can think of a couple more ways you might go to get webhelp out of
> > Confluence, but I think it would require more custom coding. What is the
> > pricing like on the k15t plugins?
> >
> > Mark Giffin
> > Mark Giffin Consulting, Inc.
> > http://markgiffin.com/
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2/6/2015 1:18 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
> >>
> >> A year ago I researched options for generating web help from content
> >> in Confluence, and the only really usable solution I found was K15t's
> >> DocBook Exporter plus the free DocBook+WebHelp.
> >>
> >> Has anyone found a better solution?
> >>
> >
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