Electronic Help Files/Manuals HTML Help or PDF?

Subject: Electronic Help Files/Manuals HTML Help or PDF?
From: bethany_rusbasan -at- leco -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:38:41 -0500


In-house Software and Hardware. The user manuals are bundled with the software on dedicated computers for our customers. We have been using Forehelp Premier 4 to create the HTML-Help. Context-sensitive help is used.

Now that Forehelp is gone the need to switch to another help authoring tool is upon us. A debate is taking place on whether we should continue with HTML-help or switch to PDF.

I would like to know what are the pros of PDFs. How searchable is it? Is it at searchable as HTML-help? Any pros and cons of both HTML-Help and PDF is appreciated.

Bethany Rusbasan
Technical Communicator
Bethany_Rusbasan -at- leco -dot- com


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