Does anyone produce technical manuals?

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8 posts & 6 voices | Started 1 year ago by wors | Latest reply from derek_starship

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wors - Member

What software for producing stuff like that?

Posted 1 year ago #
JulianA - Member

Where and how do you want to make them available?

Posted 1 year ago #
wors - Member

PDF and print. They are around 10 pages for each. I,ve got illustrator but don't like it much.

Posted 1 year ago #
jam bo - Member

I've been considering dozuki

Posted 1 year ago #
geoffj - Member

What's wrong with doing them in Word? Use styles and cross references to make it easier.

Posted 1 year ago #
JulianA - Member

Save a Word document as a PDF document?

Posted 1 year ago #
stever - Member

I use Word, that way if I die, anyone can pick them up and edit. Basic style sheet and style guide - a damn good looking one mind you - people make things too complicated. The tool of choice in the profession still seems to be Framemaker. I can do that too, but a lot of it is protectiveness... 'We are so smart, you couldn't possibly understand what we do with your inferior Office software.' I distribute in PDF.

Posted 1 year ago #
derek_starship - Member

I used Broadvision QuickSilver to produce our operation and maintenance manuals. Very powerful and can publish to PDF, XML etc..

More suited to large book-like manuals though TBH.

I think Word > PDF would be the best option for your needs.

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