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By dan1 on
Hello all! I work for a medium-sized vegetarian restaurant. I have been charged with digitizing and uploading my companies handbooks, manuals and documentation onto our website. I have decided to go with Drupal and I am wondering what experience people have had with converting to Drupal with this kind of content. I have a ton of word docs, excel spreadsheets and some PDFs. The upper-ups want everything to be downloadable in PDF, and I have to make sure that users only have access to appropriate content. Which plug ins do y'all recommend? I was planning on using the book module for the documentation, but if there is something better I am all ears. Any feedback or advice would be greatly appreciated. Has anyone here done something similar? How did you do it? What modules did you use?
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The word docs, spreadsheets
The word docs, spreadsheets and PDF's can be imported as nodes into Drupal. It can be time consuming but is doable.
Once they are in Drupal you can use the print module (http://drupal.org/project/print) to format them as PDF's/print.
thanks pcs! What do you
thanks pcs! What do you think the best way to import them will be? Should I just create the docs as pages? Is there a better way to turn them into nodes? Also; should I try to preserve the spreadsheets? is there a way for them to be displayed?