atw: Re: Word to html conversion

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> From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:austechwriter-
> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Melanie Kendell
> Sent: Friday, 14 July 2006 12:10 PM
> To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: atw: Re: Word to html conversion
> 
> Hi Irene
> 
> Any Help Authoring Tool should be able to do this.
> 
> Outputs you should look for are:
> 
> * Compressed HTML (CHM) if you are only running the output on Windows PCs
> * Java Help if you need cross platform
> 
> There are some other types but these are the main two.
> 
> Some HATs to have a look at include:
> 
> * Madcap Flare - the new kid on the block but has many of the
> ex-developers from RoboHelp
> 

Played with the sample - too slow etc at the moment - the issue is that
Adobe are going to maintain RoboHelp so most using RoboHelp will I think
wait for them.

> * RoboHelp - used to be the main player but had a dubious future
> through various acquisitions, Adobe (being the current owner) have
> made some noises about continuing development but the jury is still
> out
>

I heard that Adobe are hiring and envision a new release first quarter 2007
- and RoboHelp does do well what Irene wants. (the issue then is if MS
release 2007 material pre RoboHelp 2007 - I have not heard of them preparing
X5 updates as yet to work with MSWord 2007/IE 7.0  - and there are current
issues with working with FireFox if you use all of the java scripting
available in the WebHelp build, works fine if limit it to DHTML/HTML build)

You could always do the quick and nasty - save the pages in Word as HTML and
then load and save using OpenOffice or Dreamweaver to get the 'rubbish' out
(or just directly load into OO as a word file, save in their HTML should do
it ) - and then add an HTML control page using a frame to give the left-side
index requirement. The only issue being the size of the web pages - one per
document. RoboHelp allows for setting web page breaks - e.g. heading level 1
filter will give you X web pages per document imported where X is the number
of heading level 1 in the document.

Cost? $1600 or so.

Chris.


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