Jason Kraus wrote: > Hello, > > At work we create bucket loads of test documents and I am looking for ways > to reduce the amount of work spent on doing revision bumping and changing > minor things. Currently we simply use Microsoft Word. So if I have to > bump a > revision number, i typically use a macro to do a search and replace and I > execute it on each document. Then I have to add stuff to the revision > history. Plus some other steps. All in all, I should have to manually do > this! > > I am looking for an Open Source CMS that has the capability of exporting > documents to a PDF format. So it can be a web based CMS where I fill out > forms and such, as long as I have the option to convert. Note that it needs > to be somewhat flexible on this. I need to be able to design the cover page > layout, the header, and the footer. So simply saying print page to PDF will > not do. > > Ideally I would like to be able to do batch jobs like global search and > replace, preferably something with regexp capabilities. Also it would be > nice if one content portion could be divided into two printed documents. > > It would be nice to some how have documents refer to other documents. > Example, a test procedure would say: "This test procedure executes this > test > case." If the test case name changes, then that field is updated as it > would > print the test case name. > > Any suggestions? >
Don't have a direct suggestion, but wouldn't this be better categorized as a DMS (Document Management System)? Perhaps you can get some ideas by searching on that term. OTOH, maybe its a SCM (Source Configuration Management) problem if revision information and audit trail is of high importance. The generation of publications might be considered a different dimension of the overall system -- more-or-less orthogonal, I suppose you might say. In this view, settling the source details would seem to be the right starting point. Umm, maybe that's a built-in part of most serious DMSs -- I am just doing a little handwav^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbrainstorming here. And, maybe the word docs can be considered non-authorative input 'contributions' to some other form of master document (DocBook?). The pdf part of the problem might be considered just one of several (html, pdf, ps, word, text) output formats. OTOOH, the last paragraph does sounds like a database problem. Maybe this is a SCM/DMS/CMS hybrid? Hey? -- is there a Zope product for that? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
