atw: Re: Acrobat for generating KM system?

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On 06/12/2007, Elizabeth Fullerton <Elizabeth_Fullerton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  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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