RE: PDFs as online help?

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

Based on the answers you've received so far, you can see that (a) PDFs
*can* be used for online Help, including context sensitivity, and (b)
many of us think they're inferior for this purpose.

I've read a number of online discussions of this subject among tech
writers. It seems to me that the arguments for online PDFs focus on the
advantages for the producer, whereas the arguments against them focus on
the disadvantages for the consumer.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nancy Allison
> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 10:25 AM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: PDFs as online help?
> 
> Do any of you use PDFs for your online help?
> 
> Is it possible to link to topics within a PDF for 
> context-sensitive help?
> 
> PDFs are attractive to me, for use as an online help system, 
> because you can control the display of special characters in 
> them. You can be sure what your end user will see.
> 

This message contains confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the addressee, or the person responsible for delivering it to the addressee, you are hereby notified that reading, disseminating, distributing, copying, electronic storing or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this message is strictly prohibited.  If you have received this message by mistake, please notify us, by replying to the sender, and delete the original message immediately thereafter.  Thank you.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Free Software Documentation Project Web Cast: Covers developing Table of
Contents, Context IDs, and Index, as well as Doc-To-Help  
2009 tips, tricks, and best practices.
http://www.doctohelp.com/SuperPages/Webcasts/

Help & Manual 5: The complete help authoring tool for individual
authors and teams. Professional power, intuitive interface. Write
once, publish to 8 formats. Multi-user authoring and version control! http://www.helpandmanual.com/

---
You are currently subscribed to TECHWR-L as archive -at- web -dot- techwr-l -dot- com -dot- 

To unsubscribe send a blank email to 
techwr-l-unsubscribe -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
or visit http://lists.techwr-l.com/mailman/options/techwr-l/archive%40web.techwr-l.com


To subscribe, send a blank email to techwr-l-join -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com

Send administrative questions to admin -at- techwr-l -dot- com -dot-  Visit
http://www.techwr-l.com/ for more resources and info. 

Please move off-topic discussions to the Chat list, at:
http://lists.techwr-l.com/mailman/listinfo/techwr-l-chat