<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); ">Hello all,</div><div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); ">
<br></div><div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); ">I'm inquiring to learn more about options for exporting sections of a FLOSS manual to a more editable format outside of PDF.</div><div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); ">
<br></div><div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); ">Seeing an OpenOffice option in the new Booki interface along with Adam's response to a separate question on our Mifos mailing list about the availability of that functionality piqued my interest.</div>
<div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); "><br></div><div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); ">My query:</div><div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); ">
><br>><br>> I'm also trying to test out the different options for export, etc. I<br>> was trying to do the open office export but only was able to export to<br>> pdf.<br><br></div>Adam's response:</span></span></font></span></div>
<div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">openoffice is disabled for now as it costs too much cpu. i will disable<br>
that option in the interface<br></span></span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br>
</span></span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br>
</span></span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Our use case is that we have organizations that need to create more customized versions of our general user manual that is unique to their organization. This requires the ability to edit within certain sections (i.e. change screenshots, specify new scenarios, change terms to their specific vocabulary, etc.)</span></span></font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br>
</span></span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Is there an easy way to get export a manual to editable interface like Word or OpenOffice.</span></span></font></span></div>
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</span></span></font></span></div><div>Right now, I take it the best option for an organization wanting to "customize" a Mifos User Manual would be to "Remix" it in the following manner.</div><div><br>
</div><div>Select sections to remix, export to HTML and then 1) either edit the HTML file directly or 2) open HTML file in word and edit subsequently in Word.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance just seeing if there's an easier way to create and edit unique instances of our user manual so an end user doesn't have to mess around with HTMl, etc. </div>
<div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); "><br></div><div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); ">Thanks,</div><div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); "><br></div><div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); ">
Ed Cable</div><div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); ">Mifos Community Manager</div></span></span></font>