Re: InDesign CS2 file to Web topics?

["CL T" <straylightsghost -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Having just gone through a painful process with ID CS2 and finally
convincing the Powers that Be to upgrade to ID CS3? Do yourself a
favor...UPGRADE!

You will find that CS2 is not able to handle large docs - at all. It's like
pound the proverbial square peg into a round hole. CS3 was built with
documentation in mind...not as an afterthought.

In our company we simply export all of our documentation for Web use as
PDFs. HTML (for paper manuals or even Web Help) is a bit to unwieldy unless
you're needing the server-side support, doing incremental changes or have a
need for detailed search.

-Collin

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:52 PM, voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> I have CS3 and haven't used InDesign much at all, but I was under the
> impression that you can share files among the various programs in CS3,
> which
> includes Dreamweaver. InDesign CS3 lets you export to XML. Dreamweaver has
> an XML import (into a template) function. If other help authoring tools let
> you import XML files, that might be the way to go.
>
> -Wendy
>
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Brigitte Johnston <
> johnstonbrigitte -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>
> > Hello all -
> >
> > My company has recently produced a new (paper) manual using InDesign CS2.
> > The manual was put together by a graphic designer (with my help!) because
> it
> > was a rush job, and I did not know the software (and didn't have it on my
> > machine -- I've been using Word for the last 7 years!). So, as I'm
> sitting
> > here teaching myself InDesign (I'm just getting started - today), I get a
> > call from one of our VPs asking "What would it take to put portions of
> that
> > manual into a format accessible via the Web?" He wants parts of this
> manual
> > (topics) accessible and printable individually, but he does not want
> people
> > to be able to just print the entire manual. We'd like to have something
> > resembling help topics, not just pages of the PDF'd manual (although that
> > may be the first version, just to get them out there).
> >
> > Can someone point me in the right direction? Does this require additional
> > software, or can these topics be generated from the InDesign files?
> (There
> > are several files, one for each chapter, put together as one PDF.) If we
> can
> > use InDesign, what's the function I'm looking for? The graphic designer
> is
> > also looking into this, but I thought I would ask all of you as well. The
> > more I can get my hands in this the better!
> >
> > Many thanks in advance for any morsels of wisdom you can spare. Time is
> of
> > the essence (as usual).
> >
> > Brigitte Johnston
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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