On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:16:04AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > Well, the pdf manuals are on average 100-150 pages, but sometimes 300 pages, > > 40-60% of which is custom per project. Then on top of that, blueprints and > > BOMs of all mechanical parts. > > Do you ever have a situation where you need to index into a PDF, and if > so how do you cope?
No. We don't do help. Stronger even, I haven't really in past jobs either, since those were server apps. So all my helpfile stuff is hobby, but that goes back a long time. I was already dabbling with helpfile systems in my topspeed days (before FPC) > I'm looking at something where it would be beneficial to have a > collection of electronics info, and I'd want immediate access to a given > section. Allowing for the dominance of PDF in that industry, the best I > can think of so far is to burst each PDF into pages, and then convert > each page back to PDF. Since I don't HAVE TO deploy anything, I only work on long term solutions. IMHO this is not one :-) For the same reason, I don't like the constant Kylix help recommendations either. Fine for isolated cases, but shouldn't be promoted as general thing to do IMHO -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
