Date   : Sun, 03 Nov 2002 20:30:33 GMT
From   : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: Re: Which format do you want BBC manuals in? RTF/HTML

On Nov 3, 15:55, Matt Cocker wrote:

> I have had some feedback (not a lot though) on the manuals I have
converted,
> the majority do not appear to like the RTF format because it seems the
> standard is not standard and either will not load into some packages or
it
> appears corrupted.
>
> I originally converted to RTF so as to preserve as much formatting as
> possible for the original, it does however take a very long time to
format
> it correctly, if this format is not of use to you then I am just wasting
my
> time.
>
> I can create HTML versions a lot easier and with a lot less effort on
> formatting, they are not laid out quite the same as the original but have
> all the same content, I do format it similar with headings and different
> fonts. Also images work better in the HTML versions.

How about PDF to get the best of both worlds?  I expect there's a good
chance that whatever you're using to create RTF can also create PostScript
(even if only via a printer driver) and fro PostScript to PDF is pretty
sraightforward if you can get the appropriate (free) tools (ghostscript can
do it, for example).

Otherwise, I'd go for HTML in preference to RTF.



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Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
                                               Network Manager
                                               University of York