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Re: Online help and the elimination of the printed doc
Subject:Re: Online help and the elimination of the printed doc From:dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com To:Techwr-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:18:48 -0800
You could leave the *truly* conceptual stuff in one or more PDFs available
from the application's Help menu, from a customer download area, or both.
I've used that strategy for a couple of years now on a browser-based
server-hosted application I document.