.pdf vs. .html

Subject: .pdf vs. .html
From: "Anne Woolson" <anne -dot- woolson -at- rimage -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:22:52 -0500

Hello,



My company is wanting to move away from posting our documentation as
.PDFs on our support site, and move to presenting them in .HTML. I'm not
at all thrilled with this idea, especially since our user manuals are
long (300+ pages) and heavily formatted. I think this will be a
nightmare to do initially and equally bad (or worse) to maintain.



Can anyone tell me what the industry standard really is? And any insight
as to what formats are going to be useful in the future? Is there a
consensus on what is the right format to be using for online
presentation?



One point I can't answer is - is there a way to have an html link on our
web page jump to a specific bookmark in a .pdf? If so, that may solve my
problem outright.



Thanks for your input,



Anne Woolson Quinlan

Supervisor, Technical Publications



^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Free Software Documentation Project Web Cast: Covers developing Table of
Contents, Context IDs, and Index, as well as Doc-To-Help
2009 tips, tricks, and best practices.
http://www.doctohelp.com/SuperPages/Webcasts/

Help & Manual 5: The complete help authoring tool for individual
authors and teams. Professional power, intuitive interface. Write
once, publish to 8 formats. Multi-user authoring and version control! http://www.helpandmanual.com/

---
You are currently subscribed to TECHWR-L as archive -at- web -dot- techwr-l -dot- com -dot-

To unsubscribe send a blank email to
techwr-l-unsubscribe -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
or visit http://lists.techwr-l.com/mailman/options/techwr-l/archive%40web.techwr-l.com


To subscribe, send a blank email to techwr-l-join -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com

Send administrative questions to admin -at- techwr-l -dot- com -dot- Visit
http://www.techwr-l.com/ for more resources and info.

Please move off-topic discussions to the Chat list, at:
http://lists.techwr-l.com/mailman/listinfo/techwr-l-chat


Follow-Ups:

Previous by Author: RE: Changes in MIF output in FM 8.0
Next by Author: RE: .pdf vs. .html
Previous by Thread: Anyone in Second Life? Doing Author Chat
Next by Thread: Re: .pdf vs. .html


What this post helpful? Share it with friends and colleagues:


Sponsored Ads