I have a Help project that is constructed to publish (via
single source) to three separate Help systems and a Printed manual.
The printed output from my Help source is incredibly un-refined,
and it appears, at first glance, that the post-processing time it
will take to prepare the manual for publication is not worth the
effort - nor will it fit within my current deadline. Does anyone
know of an easy, quick way to work with printed output to make it
presentable? Secondly, does anyone know of a third party utility
that would allow me to convert the output to FrameMaker files
(.fm)?
Any assistance you could provide would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
The printed output will likely contain the same content as
the online Help - though I'll need to add a few book-only elements,
such as copyright information. I will also need to 'hide' all DHTML
(I don't want expanding text to appear in the printed manual), and
will need to hide most snippets, which I use in just about every
topic - something that will be an annoyance, visually and with
flow, to a user reading the printed output. I assume I can do this
through conditional text.
As for the template, I have not decided which option to use.
What do you recommend, and which, generally speaking will work
best? If I point to a Word template, will I have to match the style
names in that template to the style names in my Help template?
For the topics that you only want in the printed version, I
suggest you create a tag such as Print Only and exclude those
topics when you generate the online help.
For the dropdowns, the Advanced button has an option to
exclude them.
For the rest, see the topic on my site about Printed
Documentation.
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