Electronic manual writing

If your are a programmer, like I am, you write manuals. So, I think that information is a real value for you.

EPUBLISHER: your manual writer

Advanced Control Data introduces EPUBLISHER, your electronic manual writer for Windows.

The idea:
EPUBLISHER, a professional editor/drawer/painter program for Windows (like CorelDRAW,Pagemaker, Ventura Publisher, QuarkXPRESS), allows you to create documents with fonts, drawings, colors, but unlike conventional desktop publishing packages, Epublisher generates a very special output: a very short ASCII command set. The length of a full color screen is less than 1000 Bytes, so a full 1000 screen size manual with jumps, graphics, and fonts is less than 1MByte. On the client side, (WWW browsers, or your program manual on disk, etc.) users use a free viewer, EPUBVIEW, to execute the commands generated by EPUBLISHER.
In programming terms: EPUBVIEW is a graphical interpreter.  

This unique technology allows you to generate many documents with full desktop publishing features and allows you to send them over the wires within seconds or if you write a manual, it occupies only a few kilobytes on your floppy disk that you distribute.   

The screen oriented output offers you new features:
* inserting buttons and icons into your document where readers can click and
jump,just like in an online service
Your manual is practically a small BBS engine on a floppy disk.
* using colors for coding text in your document is a new feature that has
just been introduced and that has never been possible before. Example for color coding: you can build up your document in red color for main text, blue for comments to go along with the document, and green for headings and titles. users can extract text of any color from your document and save it in a new file.

Please visit our WWW site for more information:

http://www.restonline.com/acd/info.html

Information specific to manual-writing:

http://www.restonline.com/acd/epbmanl.html

Sincerely:
Laslo Chaki
Advanced Control Data
Voice: (714)8379659
EMAIL: lchaki_at_deltanet.com

PS: We introduced EPUBLISHER for the NET a couple days ago. Here are a couple of EMAIL we received:

From: an America Online engineer

Hi, Laslo:

I just took a look at your Web site . . . very interesting!

Your best next step to be considered.... Thanks,

From: a print publisher consultant

Hi Laslo,
I think you are on the right track. My company works with many print publishers who want to move to web publishing. Good luck, Received on Tue Oct 17 1995 - 00:00:00 CET