SynthMakerphilter5 ·
any suggestions? i´d like to create manuals / help files for plugins / tools. thx
phil 🙂
suggestions for pdf creator please
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infuzion ·
PDFs stink, use HTML5, which can be read more conveniently than any PDF reader. Worse comes to worse, find a doc program that will export into both PDF & HTML5, but plz ensure the PDFs have bookmarks.
Warmonger ·
I use LaTeX editor (WinShell) since I learned that... and nothing else. Perfect PDFs with all the content listed, in always same style, but still configurable. You can throw anything at it, including notes, cyryllic, tengwar or bottle labels, and it will always look great. If only you are planning to go for sophisticated design (notes, links, graphs, code), go for it.
Still, learning curve for LaTeX is steep. Luckily, if you're using only English, encoding issues should be gone.
philter5 ·
thx for the answer warmonger! and infuzion, i know html5 is not hard to learn or to use but i need pdf. if i wouldn´t need it here i would just take wordpad and write a simple *.txt file 😀
infuzion ·
https://www.google.com/search?q=online+ ... f+converte
trogluddite ·
I find the .pdf export from OpenOffice works just fine for me. Anyone who ever used Microsoft Office at work will learn it in no time - it's pretty much just an open source clone. It's what I use for my own plugin manuals, and for some of the SM tutorials here on the forum. The chapter and heading hierarchy is properly exported as nested bookmarks, and adding internal hyperlinks to other parts of the document is a doddle.
CoreStyler ·
Microsoft Word 2010 + PDF plugin from mycrosoft. 😉
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