I really need a server that mutable people can store the "collective knowledge" Once that knowledge is there then rendering it as PDF becomes important. Creating PDF documents is not an issue
Thus I am looking at xwiki.org as a solution they have three attractive features: - It's open source, and also free - Since it's a Tomcat6 based, it has a high end WISWIG in browser editor - It does rendering to PDF in a plugin On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Sean Phelan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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! > > -- > /** Joe Apuzzo > ** Call: KD2AKU > ** PGP/GPG: key ID BB5C7 > **/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group > http://mhvlug.orghttp://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Sep 5 - OpenStack > Oct 3 - Mobile Web Development > Nov 7 - Typography: Physical Art to Digital Art > > > -- > ------------------------------ > Sean Phelan > (321) 698-7987 > [image: SitesBySequoia.com - Web Sites, Social Media and E-mail > Marketing] <http://www.SitesBySequoia.com/> > http://www.SitesBySequoia.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Sep 5 - OpenStack > Oct 3 - Mobile Web Development > Nov 7 - Typography: Physical Art to Digital Art > > -- /** Joe Apuzzo ** Call: KD2AKU ** PGP/GPG: key ID BB5C7 **/
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