I appreciate all the comments and suggestions with reference to my project.
I've decided to do the HTML by hand based upon a couple of comments here and the fact that I know HTML. Doing it by hand will give me better control of the code. (There will be many changes to the content as time passes.) So, that leaves the PDF version. My reason for wanting a PDF version is mostly for possible printing ... either specific pages or the entire project. One person mentioned that the size of my project (5 MB of text plus many, many images) will be difficult to work with. It will be easy to break the project into sections if that's what is needed. People have mentioned LaTeX (which I'm not familar with but willing to learn), LyX, OpenOffice, AbiWord, Scribus (of course), www.rsane.com, and www.docbook.org. Keeping in mind that I have no experience with creating PDF documents which of the above applications is easiest to work with for PDF output? Is there a difference between the above applications in the quality of the PDF produced (from one person's comments it seems that Scribus produces the best quality PDFs ... true?)? Is there a difference between the above applications in supporting whatever options there are with the contents of PDF documents? Again, as time passes there will be multiple changes to the content. Does that fact make a difference in which application I choose to create the PDF document? One thing that I have in mind is that I probably won't be producing a complex PDF document in the initial version of the project, but I may want to include more complexity in future revisions. Is there anything else I should be considering as far as creating a PDF document goes? -- Marshall Lake -- mlake at mlake.net -- http://mlake.net
