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Re: Create a Help file like Adobe's?

Subject: Re: Create a Help file like Adobe's?
From: "William Roy" <roywh -at- jmu -dot- edu>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 19:39:44 -0500



Hey Bryan,

Good point. I forgot to mention that our audience has to have Adobe Acrobrat reader, so using Acrobat for the Help is a good fit for our audience. They also have to have a Flash plug-in.

Do you, or anyone else, think that the PDF is being loaded in some sort of Microsoft CHM program? It looks very similar to CHM Help files.

~William

(This email is about how to replicate the interface that Adobe uses - third party software, something in Acrobat, etc.)

----- Original Message ----- From: Bryan Sherman
To: William Roy
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: Create a Help file like Adobe's?


One concern... wouldn't that require that the end-user have Acrobat?
May not be an issue with your audience, but I am not sure you can
assume everyone has Acrobat Reader installed.

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 16:07:18 -0500, William Roy <roywh -at- jmu -dot- edu> wrote:


Hey Everyone,

I'm working on a project that needs serious help revision - all the way down
to tools. RoboWord pretty much bites. I suggested the alternative of using
PDF files. We have about 6 PDF modules, just to help updating and download
time.

HERE IS MY QUESTION: If you have Acrobat 6 Standard or Professional, you
will notice that the complete Help found under the Help menu opens a new
window with a pretty nice interface that loads the PDF. Is it possible to
create one like this? What are they doing? I looked at the program files and
couldn't find anything useful except that the files are actually separate
PDF files that open like any other PDF, but some program or code must be
running before it opens when you click it in the Help menu.

Finding out how to work with the Adobe interface would be useful for just
about anyone that writes Help files. Check your own Help file out and see
how nice it is!

Thanks,
~William



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