Word Perfect, Microsoft Word, and FrameMaker are a few of the programs that have this capability. Still other programs support document viewing, hypertext linking, and automatic generation of hypertext links. FrameMaker is a good example of this type of program. It is especially useful for producing on-line books and manuals. Hypertext links are automatically generated for the table of contents, index, and cross-references.
Several products use the format approach to process the files of a variety of programs.
On-line documents are typically produced by printing them to a file with a special driver. This produces documents that look exactly like the originals. These products work much like the standard Windows fax programs. Typical of these products are Envoy , Common Ground , and Acrobat. One drawback of most of these programs is that you add the hypertext links after creating the on-line document.