Title: Sites By Sequoia
Eric,
> Well this is really above my pay scale but thought I'd
chime in to stir the brainstorm.
> Check out Xataface.
> Let the laughter begin :)
Well, I'm definitely laughing, but not at you ... I'm laughing at
how it has taken me long to hear of Xataface, when it looks like the
best web-based CRUD package I've yet seen. (And I've been looking
for a while!)
Thanks for mentioning it :)
Sp
On 8/8/2012 9:46 PM, ew wrote:
Well this is really above my pay scale but thought I'd
chime in to stir the brainstorm.
then somehow (black magic and slick query) grab the content
and print to pdf, you may have a winner. Perhaps
creating views by author may help in the mix.
Let the laughter begin :)
Eric
On Aug 8, 2012, at 8:57 PM, Sean Phelan wrote:
Joe,
I imagine there are many, many ways to approach this
challenge, of course.
My take on this is that the hard part isn't the PDF
generation, but the content management, structure, and process
you'll need to put together for getting people to edit/manage
their info in a way that you can combine.
Assuming you have that part under control (or reasonably so),
I'd give PDFTK a whirl and see if it could be coaxed into
creating what you want from the data:
http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/
Disclaimer ... PDFTK probably won't help you convert the
content into PDF, but could help you arrange it.
If people are really starting with doc and text files, maybe
they could print them to PDF and just put them in the right
place for your book builder to pick up?
I'm thinking PDFCreator for this :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Although most of the office tools let you export to PDF
natively nowadays.
Let us know what you come up with!
Good luck,
Sean P
On 8/8/2012 8:02 PM, Joseph Apuzzo wrote:
I work with a group of people and support one of
8+ complex HPC applications.
We in turn work with 10-30 developers and 100 releases etc.
etc.
So we have a pile of information that needs to be shared.
Thus most of this information is in a simple Wiki
But the server is corporate control and due to me migrated
to some new Lotus project etc etc. ( you know were that ends
)
So I was thinking of moving the data to a local server that
only our department needs access to.
It needs to be accessed via standard web browser, sharing a
txt or doc file is not going to work.
Here is the real question, is there a web application that
in effect a group of people could use to create a "book"
That is each team create a section on there own product etc.
then this information could be rendered as a PDF?
As a PDF all users could then have an offline version and
would be accessible via any OS or device ( like a pad etc )
Every time I Google this, for book or manual it gives me
books or manuals on web servers, not servers or applications
that can create a pdf document.
A good example would be FLOSS Manuals, but it's not apparent
what software they run or how to duplicate it.
Help!
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