Title: Sites By Sequoia
Joe,
I imagine there are many, many ways to approach this challenge, of
course.
My take on this is that the hard part isn't the PDF generation, but
the content management, structure, and process you'll need to put
together for getting people to edit/manage their info in a way that
you can combine.
Assuming you have that part under control (or reasonably so), I'd
give PDFTK a whirl and see if it could be coaxed into creating what
you want from the data:
http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/
Disclaimer ... PDFTK probably won't help you convert the content
into PDF, but could help you arrange it.
If people are really starting with doc and text files, maybe they
could print them to PDF and just put them in the right place for
your book builder to pick up?
I'm thinking PDFCreator for this :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Although most of the office tools let you export to PDF natively
nowadays.
Let us know what you come up with!
Good luck,
Sean P
On 8/8/2012 8:02 PM, Joseph Apuzzo wrote:
I work with a group of people and support one of 8+
complex HPC applications.
We in turn work with 10-30 developers and 100 releases etc. etc.
So we have a pile of information that needs to be shared. Thus
most of this information is in a simple Wiki
But the server is corporate control and due to me migrated to some
new Lotus project etc etc. ( you know were that ends )
So I was thinking of moving the data to a local server that only
our department needs access to.
It needs to be accessed via standard web browser, sharing a txt or
doc file is not going to work.
Here is the real question, is there a web application that in
effect a group of people could use to create a "book"
That is each team create a section on there own product etc. then
this information could be rendered as a PDF?
As a PDF all users could then have an offline version and would be
accessible via any OS or device ( like a pad etc )
Every time I Google this, for book or manual it gives me books or
manuals on web servers, not servers or applications that can
create a pdf document.
A good example would be FLOSS Manuals, but it's not apparent what
software they run or how to duplicate it.
Help!
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