Malcolm Smith write:
On Jul 23, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Roger Clary wrote:
On Jul 23, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Stephen wrote:
What ever happened to HTML help files? Wasn't that the standard
for a long time?
The are no "standards" out there, only conventions that Apple,
Microsoft, and other third party vendors have provided. If you are
going with only one specific platform, then things are easier, but
in a cross platform situation, things become tricky.
One more advantage about using PDFs is that customers can download
them separately and send them off to various places as needed.
Hard to do with complicated html files.
Regards,
Stephen
I think that's the question at hand. How does one create HTML help
files cheaply and easily. What I have garnered from this thread,
please correct me if I'm wrong, is:
1) coding the help file oneself is time consuming and difficult to
maintain.
2) UniHelp is one possible option but also not easy to maintain
3) Using a .pdf file is a good solution, but one must buy Acrobat
to create the links
4) One can use Word, or Apple Pages to create the files, and export
as .pdf but there is no way to create pdf links
** prev. posts mentioned creating links in Pages, but that is only
good if the user HAS Pages to open the file(no way to save as .pdf
WITH links
The PDF that I create using Pages includes the links in the PDF. You
just save as PDF like in any other OS X application.
Version 1 Pages did not include the links but that was added in
version 2.
Malcolm Smith
Just to be clear about this, hyperlinks in Pages and PDF bookmarks
are two different animals. PDF bookmarks are
the hierarchical listings that show up in the drawer to the side
of the window that allow you to navigate to any spot in the
document (at any time). Usually the author wants this to be the
same as the table of contents. Hyperlinks are less effective since
they only link one location to another and once you transverse the
link, it is difficult to jump to another location since there is
no global set of links like PDF bookmarks.
I think buying Acrobat is gonna be my solution
The disadvantage of creating the bookmarks in acrobat, is that
when you make changes to the documents content in Pages and export
it to PDF, you need to create the bookmarks again from scratch. If
you are dealing with a lot of bookmarks, this is a tedious and
time consuming process. The only way to get around this is use
Word on the PC and PDF Maker. Just be informed about what you are
getting into.
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