Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
Jari's responded to my proposal of converting the Finale user manual from ~.pdf to ~.htm format by writing
That means you have to have some kind of search engine on your computer, which is not the case for everyone.
Acrobat Search is available in Acrobat Reader.
to which Dennis responded
Yes, I know. I meant, in reply to Noel's question, that if the manual were in html instead of pdf, you'd need some other way to search.
and I would note that if the manual were in html, it would be opened by html compliant browers, which do provide similar searching and linking capbilities to what is now provided by the Acrobat suite. What prompted me to consider the idea, was observing that a manual for another package, which was longer than the Finale User manual, with about the same number of links, loaded the browser and the manual much more quickly than the user manual loads in Finale.
You can load the user manual faster in Finale -- it isn't the manual that loads slowly but rather the bloated Acrobat that loads slowly.
First, go to Edit/Preferences/Update and set the update to Manually, and uncheck the display box. Then, you can rename the plug-ins folder for Acrobat Reader to something like plug-ins-NOT. Then create a new folder called plug-ins and copy from the renamed folder into the new folder EWH32.api, printme.api, search.api. Next time you run Acrobat reader it virtually snaps onto the screen. I got this tip from PCMagazine. It now loads as fast as any browser would load!
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