From: snacktime <snacktime@...>
Date: 2006-10-26T05:14:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Documentation formats (RDoc to PDF output?)

Documentation formats for things like user guides and software
documentation have been a pain in my *** now for quite a while.  If
you want to produce professional looking documentation with nice
headers/footers, graphics, and also have the formatting carried over
correctly to your pdf's, then the only open source application I have
found that doesn't require major amounts of effort to make this happen
is Openoffice.  We messed around for weeks with things like Docbook
and Tex with poor results.   Sure they can work, but the amount of
effort and knowledge required to make them work is crazy if you aren't
a publishing house or larger company.