Re: .pdf vs. .html

[quills -at- airmail -dot- net]

Adding to my last post on this topic, the tool you use for creation of 
you documents is very important. To create PDFs and use utilities to do 
this efficiently, I'd recommend a full featured product like Adobe 
FrameMaker. Even producing HTML I lean toward FrameMaker because of it's 
ease of use in design and structure.

You could use Word, but that is a kludge, not a solution.

MadCap is also a possible, though I detest the interface and consisder 
it difficult to write in and design in.

Scott

Anne Woolson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> My company is wanting to move away from posting our documentation as
> .PDFs on our support site, and move to presenting them in .HTML. I'm not
> at all thrilled with this idea, especially since our user manuals are
> long (300+ pages) and heavily formatted. I think this will be a
> nightmare to do initially and equally bad (or worse) to maintain.
> 
>  
> 
> Can anyone tell me what the industry standard really is? And any insight
> as to what formats are going to be useful in the future? Is there a
> consensus on what is the right format to be using for online
> presentation?
> 
>  
> 
> One point I can't answer is - is there a way to have an html link on our
> web page jump to a specific bookmark in a .pdf? If so, that may solve my
> problem outright.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks for your input,
> 
>  
> 
> Anne Woolson Quinlan
> 
> Supervisor, Technical Publications
> 
>  
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