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How is it hard to have an in-depth TOC in online help? The TOC trees
in my online help are identical to the bookmark trees in my PDFs.
The main advantages of PDFs are that you can more easily read topics
sequentially and printouts are better.
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Kathleen
MacDowell<kathleen -at- writefortheuser -dot- com> wrote:
> PDFs can add value beyond Help if you include bookmarks (and possible
> internal TOCs). It's hard to have an in-depth TOC in Help, which I think can
> be frustrating. By using bookmarks in a PDF, you can at least supplement the
> TOC to present a more organized view of the topics. ...
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