Jim,
Frank, when you have time, please elaborate a bit for everyone about the
conditions / situation ("case"), and reasons, you "still think that in this
case, PDF is the way to go", specifically, the source (online) system and the
benefits gained from the extra work of maintaining PDFs (perhaps one, but
probably several). After all, by definition the PDFs would simply be
duplicates of the source info, requiring re-generation every time a source
page is changed in order to stay current, and adding nothing but
restrictions, in the proposed world where there is always a way to
view/download/print the entire "manual" (collection of pages) directly from
the current source.
Oh, if there is a way to view/download/print the entire "manual",
there wouldn't be a need for PDF per se. All I'm saying
is that we need an offline delivery channel that will enable users to
download and print a manual (collection of pages). I don't bother what
process to use, but PDF seemed to be the most straightforward choice to me.
Regarding the problem of keeping PDF and online source in sync, we could
either regularly publish PDFs as snapshots and refer to the online source
as the most up-to-date and "development" version of a document or
have a way to automatically create PDF on the fly from the current sources.
Frank
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