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We buy software for use at multiple sites. The software company sends us
documentation on one CD-ROM disk every time they revise it. However, our
users are using dumb terminals hooked up to AS/400 midrange computers.
The documentation will not display on their terminals.
This means we have to print out the documentation and send out paper
documentation to 20 locations. When I create online documents with
BookManager, I can put them on multiple platforms and send files by EFT.
Question: Is there a way to get the documentation in Acrobat format to
display on a terminal? Documentation that must be read on another
machine defeats the purpose of online documentation.
From Betty Gravlin, Sr. Documentation Analyst, Kellwood Co., St. Louis, MO
rbg -at- tetranet -dot- net
