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Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

Title:Online Bookbuilding
Notice:This conference is write-locked: see note 1.3.
Moderator:VAXUUM::UTT
Created:Fri Aug 12 1988
Last Modified:Mon Jul 15 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:440
Total number of notes:2134

221.0. "Tool for customer ?" by VNASWS::GEROLD (from the couch of Sigmund Freud) Thu Nov 09 1989 05:55

We have a customer here in Vienna ( several hundred of VAXes and you know
we treat such customers slightly different ) who would be in urgent need
of the bookboulding tools. He is a permanent VMS FT site , etc., etc...

Whom can I contact to talk about this ?

Thanks very much,

Gerold Krommer, ACT Vienna

PS.: Mr. or Mrs. Moderator, if you think this notesfile is not apprpriate
     delete it and send me mail.
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221.1CLOSET::UTTMon Nov 13 1989 19:0811
    Gerold,
    
    I have forwarded your request to Marian Weisenfeld
    (BLUMON::WEISENFELD), OLD program manager. She can give you information
    about and names of people to contact for an online bookbuilding service
    that DEC will  be making available to customers for getting their books
    online before we release the tools to customers.
    
    Hope this helps,
    
    Mary
221.2New program manager?MACGPX::MOYMike Moy, NJCD SWS=>DTN 323-4466Wed Nov 22 1989 06:505
    Mary,
    
    Is there a new program manager for the bookbuilding tools?
    
    mike
221.3CLOSET::UTTWed Nov 22 1989 09:034
    You may be thinking of the new CUP Online Documentation Program
    Manager, Michele' Cicalese (LEZAH::CICALESE, or DONVAN::CICALESE).
    
    Mary
221.4Customers Books On Line as a ServiceLOWELL::WEISENFELDFri Nov 24 1989 16:4331
    At this time, there are no online bookbuilding tools available for
    customers either as a product or in field test.  We anticipate
    providing these tools in two forms:
    
    	DOCUMENT V2.0 will contain support for the Bookreader as a
    	destination.
    
    	Work is currently underway to create a DDIF-to-Bookreader
    	converter to be released as part of the CDA converter library.
    
    Since no schedules have been published for either of these two 
    projects, it is premature to discuss them with customers.
    
    However, as Mary mentioned to you in an earlier reply, if your customer
    wishes to obtain online versions of their documentation in the near
    term, Digital can convert their existing files to Bookreader files as a
    service, and you should contact Kathy Jamieson on node SUPER::JAMIESON.
    Please provide Kathy with some information about your customer's
    database of documentation, like:
    
    	How big is it?
    	Is it hardcopy or contained in some online form?
    	How much of it is graphics (percentage)?
    	What did they use to format it?
    	When do they want it completed?
    	Do they want it on CDROM?
    
    Glad there is as much interest in Europe as there is in the U.S.!!
    
    Cheers,
    Marian 
221.5Is there a Customer Version Yet?GLORY::FISCHERMike Fischer @FACMon Mar 04 1991 15:0213
      Hello,

    	It seems that this topic has had no further discussion over the
    past year.

    	We have a client that we are building a large system for.  We are
    writing the documentation with Document, maybe a bit of DECwrite, and
    we need to know if there is, or will there be, a version of Document
    that customer can use to update their BOOKREADER files on their own?

    Thank you,

    Mike
221.6Almost for DOCUMENT, yes for DECwriteVAXUUM::UTTMary UttMon Mar 04 1991 16:348
    DOCUMENT V2.0, shortly to be released, provides the online bookbuilding
    tools for customers. It will be announced both here and in the DOCUMENT
    notes conference (on CLOSET::).
    
    DECwrite V1.1, which has been shipping for some time, provides
    Bookreader support.
    
    Mary