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Subject:Re: Single source ducumentation From:Ward Rosenberry <wardr -at- WORLD -dot- STD -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 16 Jul 1999 07:36:38 -0400
Look at Doc-to-Help from Wextech ( www.wextech.com ).
It produces HTML Help, Java Help, W3C HTML, Win 95 Help, Win3.1 Help,
and printed docs from one source. The templates for the printed docs
look and work ok, too.
But nothing is perfect. I've had to use this for several projects and
recall numerous struggles to get everything looking right and behaving
properly at production time.
RoboHelp from Blue Sky Software ( www.blue-sky.com ) is similar.
Ward
Graham Bridge wrote:
> Dear Everybody,
>
> I've been following this discussion group for a while and now I am
> seeking some hard advice on the above subject.
> I am the Documentation Manager in a French based multi-national company
> who is a software editor of Automated CAM and Production Control
> applications.
>
> For the moment these two products are supported by paper only
> documentation (600 pages/2 volumes for CAM and 1600 pages/9 volumes for
> Production Control). This documentation has been done with Word97 on a
> reasonably structured basis (well defined templates, macros, multiple
> files using automatically generated TOCs and indexes).
>
> We now want to (and have to) move on to On line Help, CD based
> documentation, Web based documentation - and we have to maintain the
> paper documentation.
>
> My question is, is there a 'perfect' product which will allow us to
> produce all these different document formats without giving us any great
> maintenance headaches, i.e. we update one source and this generates
> updating in the other media sources.
>
> Another point of importance is that I really do prefer that we stay with
> Word as the source of the paper document, although this is not an
> irrevocable rule - but I will be very reluctant.
>
> Very best regards,
>
> Graham Bridge
>
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