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Subject:Re: HTML vs. PDF vs. HELP From:Bill Burns <BillDB -at- ILE -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 12 Aug 1997 08:10:47 -0600
I think Envoy with Tumbleweed extensions will create bookmarks. I just
evaluated Tumbleweed Publishing Essentials, and I'm choosing to stick
with PDF. Some of the features are excellent--embedding the browser in
the document, more editing options. However, the UI for Envoy
w/Tumbleweed isn't very intuitive, and the technical documentation reads
more like marketing literature. The real clincher was the quality of
graphics in Envoy--double-plus ungood.
In hoping to find more dynamic solutions than PDF, but until one becomes
available that allows some printed page control, I'll be sticking with
PDF.
Bill Burns
Technical Writer
ILE Communications Group
billdb -at- ile -dot- com
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, August 11, 1997 4:06 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: HTML vs. PDF vs. HELP
>
> <SNIP>
> > Files produced by Tumbleweed Envoy. It's a competing technology to
> PDF. An
> > envoy print driver is bundled with WordPerfect 6.1, and I've also
> seen it
> > listed in the same breath as Novell products. The only place I've
> ever seen
> > EVY files is on Tumbleweed's home page.
> <SNIP>
>
> Coincidentally, I looked at an Envoy file only yesterday. A friend was
> raving about WordPerfect's on-line manual. I routinely make on-line
> PDF
> manuals from FrameMaker and was curious about what tool Corel
> WordPerfect was using.
>
> The differences I could see in the brief look I had was that PDF has
> the
> advantages of:
>
> - a Bookmark window to jump into the document;
> - hot-links to cross-references
>
> The only links I could find in the Envoy manual was from the TOC.
> Perhaps others are optional.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave Chisma
> chisma -at- c031 -dot- aone -dot- net -dot- au
>
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