atw: Acrobat for generating KM system?

Hi all

We are developing a business methodology, and want to develop some kind of 
electronic storage for it, including as some high-level requirements:

*       Graphical process flows where we can click on an activity to drill down 
to lower levels, and also access further information about the activity, 
including "attributes" such as mandatory/optional, and links to case studies 
and templates
*       Storage of case studies and templates and other accessories to the 
methodology
*       Portability, so a consultant can whack the latest version onto their 
laptop and take to a client site (preferably with accessory files)

We have a (long) list of other things, but those three are probably the basic 
most important

Just looking at tools to hand, we've had a bit of a play with Visio, which is 
actually quite cool when you save it to a web page - all clickable and links, 
and we can also put attributes on elements.

Problem with Visio is that it's not very text-friendly, and it's a bit clunky - 
though perfectly usable with some good planning. Someone suggested that Acrobat 
8 may be a good tool to convert different formats to a common format, I know 
that the earlier versions you could do quite a bit with - I assume that you can 
now do more! Also, to create a cohesive system, all the pages need to be in a 
single Visio file, which can be a pain both in file generation time (12 pages 
takes several minutes), and also not so good if we want multiple people working 
on it simultaneously.

Has anyone had any experience in using Acrobat for this purpose? We're not 
looking for a more specialised tool at the moment, because that's a long-term 
decision with many other factors, so at the moment we're looking at what we can 
do with the bog-standard generally-found-in-offices-type tools. We don't have 
the full version at the moment, but will consider purchasing if it looks like 
it will be useful.

I seem to recall, from a long-distant Acrobat training course, that while there 
were heaps of things you could do with Acrobat in terms of links, hotspots, 
etc, a lot of it was done manually, post-generation. We'd like to avoid that 
overhead, if possible.

Version-control-wise, we use Sharepoint document repository, so something that 
will work with that would be good.

Has anyone attempted something like this - with Acrobat or any other 
non-specialised tool? Good experiences? Bad experiences?

Thanks
Elizabeth





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