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How about using FrameMaker to create PDF for online distribution of
printable documents and WebWorks Publisher Professional version 6, as you
point out for the online help. Nothing else needed.
> Our company needs to put large documents (i.e. hundreds of pages and up)
> online, and I have been assigned to find the tool(s) for the job. The
> documents will mainly consist of standard operating procedures, which are
> table-heavy documents that they would like to have indexed, and accessible
> via tables of contents that should be able to be generated automatically.
> As
> well, the tool(s) need to be able to generate print-ready documentation,
> as
> well as HTML output.
>
>
>
> I just wanted to see if anyone had any recommendations on a tool other
> than
> FrameMaker with WebWorks. I've never used either, however from my
> research,
> it appears like this is the ideal solution for our needs. However, is
> there
> any other tools we should take a look at? I've checked out Quark XPress
> white papers, and don't see much on it's web ability, though read many
> posts
> that talk about its ease of use over Frame. Didn't see hardly anything on
> Ventura. Read some posts about Interleaf, but saw some people talking
> about
> it's unwieldiness, which sort of made me apprehensive. Then checked out
> the
> web site and was a bit confused. (It's a family of products, I take it?)
>
All of these tools can get you to the web. In short, I find Quark useful for
smaller, less structured documents, like marketing and newsletter, etc.. I
find Ventura to offer a tonne of glitz, more so than FrameMaker, but it has
been very unstable in my experience. I have not used Interleaf, recommend
you look at it, see how prevalent it is, and evaluate its cost versus
benefits.
