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Which software to use?
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I'm going to be making a 75-100 paged manual for this company I work for. I get paid for it and I can use either the company's computers (500 Mhz Gateway desktops) or my home computer (12" PowerBook). The manual is going to have a ton of screen shots from a computer program (the manual is going to be used as a supplemental reference to this program called Visual Banker 4). It's pretty much going to be a giant How-to guide on many different functions of this program, supplemented with plenty of screen shots. After all is said and done I am going to take the work to Kinko's or wherever and have it bound and the different sections tabbed for quick reference. My question is, which program would be the best for this. I've never done anything like this before so if no one answers I'm just going to end up using Word X on my PowerBook. But I know there has to be an easier way....
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Well I think some computer related books are made with some sort of XML language for writing a book, with paragraphs, header , etc tags...
Altho, I don't know the name... 
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LaTeX?
If that's what you're thinking of, it's not XML based...but the concept is somewhat similar.
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[Wevah setPostCount:[Wevah postCount] + 1];
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When my wife had to compile her PhD thesis, we had hundreds of pages of text in Word, dozens of graphs that started in excel and got tweaked in Illustrator, and a handful of photos to put together in one document.
I have 2 words:
InDesign rules.
(BTW, the demo does everything. Just get it done in 30 days!)
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OS X: Where software installation doesn't require wizards with shields.
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Originally posted by C.J. Moof:
When my wife had to compile her PhD thesis, we had hundreds of pages of text in Word, dozens of graphs that started in excel and got tweaked in Illustrator, and a handful of photos to put together in one document.
I have 2 words:
InDesign rules.
(BTW, the demo does everything. Just get it done in 30 days!)
Nice, do I need to know anything about InDesign to be productive with it? All the images are jpegs and all the text is in Text Edit right now..
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For print, it makes more sense to have images in TIFF rather than JPEG. And you'll probably need to spend a little while getting up to speed in InDesign if you've never used a pro page layout app before.
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Is there any way to take screen shots in Windows and have it automatically take the shot in tiff format or do I have to do a conversion later?
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Screenshots are low resolution and usually don't print particularly well at full size.
If you have a choice, use tiffs but its not worth converting existing jpegs for screenshots.
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