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Subject:RE: PDF a "book" of Word files From:"Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:03:41 -0400
And the moral is: When no one in your group knows FrameMaker, and you hire a
single tech writer, and the tech writer recommends working in FrameMaker...
Have everyone in the group read the whole post below (and the subsequent
responses), before you agree.
Dan Goldstein
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From: John Posada [mailto:JPosada -at- book -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 2:39 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: PDF a "book" of Word files
Ok, guys...here's the thing..
I'm working in FM and I'm using the book capability to create comprehensive
PDFs, which are then placed on network shared drives. However, I'm outta
here in a week, so I've been working on converting all my FM stuff to Word
using Mif2Go because nobody in my group is FM savvy. By leaving them a set
in Word, they can do maintenance until they get up to speed in FM.
Anyway...I met with my boss this afternoon to introduce him to my file
structure and processes and he assumed that he would be able to maintain the
files in Word and use Word to create updated books just like I do in FM.
When I told him that he couldn't, he was not pleased...not directed at me
because he knew that I gave him more working in FM than I could have in
Word, just not pleased in general.
Did I lie? is there a way of taking 300 or more individual Word files (and
keep them individual) and generate a single PDF, with continuous pagination,
TOC, and bookmarks?
Understand, this will be maintained by one of the "lucky" developers until
they can figure out how/if/when to replace me.
Please don't include Master document as a suggestion :-)
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