Converting documents between a wiki and Word, XML, FrameMaker or other help formats
This week I published a post on the Atlassian blog about single source publishing on a wiki. I’m cross-posting it here because it may be useful to technical writers who read this blog. 
The post discusses a few of the reasons why we may want to write our documents on a wiki and then publish them to other formats, or conversely write the documents using another tool and then publish them to a wiki as one of the delivery formats.
Next, the post recommends some good tools for converting content from these formats into Confluence wiki format:
- From Microsoft Word to Confluence wiki
- From Adobe FrameMaker to Confluence wiki
- From DITA XML to Confluence wiki
And some tools for converting content from a Confluence wiki into these formats:
- From Confluence to PDF
- From Confluence to Microsoft Word
- From Confluence to HTML
- From Confluence to XML (Confluence-specific format)
- From Confluence to DocBook XML
- From Confluence to Eclipse Help
- From Confluence to JavaHelp
In case it’s useful, there’s also a post I wrote a while ago about getting content into and out of wikis. That post looks at a couple of other wikis as well as Confluence, and covers a wider range of tools. The new post on the Atlassian blog is more up to date and is specifically about conversion tools to and from Confluence.
If you’re interested, mosey on over to the Atlassian blog and take a look. I’d love to hear your experiences with the tools mentioned in the blog post, or if you’ve used any other tools or need any other conversions. What did I miss out? There’s an interesting discussion going on already. Here’s the link again: Technical writing in a wiki – single source publishing.
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20 November 2010 at 2:21 pm
Hello, Sarah! An online outliner http://checkvist.com (a pet project developed by my husband and myself) can export to Confluence, too!
If I can mention it here, of course, but why not – I work with Confluence every day
sasha
22 November 2010 at 7:41 pm
Hallo sasha
Checkvist looks pretty cool! Thanks for letting me know about it. I think I’ll have a play over the weekend, and try exporting the results to Confluence too.
Cheers
Sarah
ffeathers
23 November 2010 at 6:54 am
I’d be absolutely happy if you could share any thoughts or impressions on the tool, if/when you have a minute, sashka@gmail.com
We aimed the tool at IT professionals (software developers and technical communicators were its first audience) and planned a much tighter integration with Confluence, but it’s still a matter of future.
sasha
23 November 2010 at 7:41 pm
Hallo again Sasha
I’ve written a blog post about it:
Checkvist is very neat indeed.
http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/playing-with-checkvist-for-handy-online-to-do-lists/
Cheers, Sarah
ffeathers
27 December 2010 at 4:55 pm
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