McKown, John wrote:
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Simpson
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 2:39 PM
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Subject: Re: PDF vs BookManager
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Yes, I do have Adobe Reader 7.0. And No, I still don't think
it's better than BookManager. Imagine being at home trying
to shoot a problem over a dial-up connection (some of us live
in broad-band deprived areas), when the single manual page
you need is buried in the middle of a 5MB PDF.
And, I've noticed that some PDFs have a "Table of Contents" that you can
click on to go directly to a section in the PDF. But, in my experience,
this is RARE. IIRC, none of the CA manuals that I have can do this. I
don't remember any IBM manuals that can do this either. So I must jump
directly to some page number and hope that I get near what I need. The
pgdn/pgup to try to find what I'm looking for.
Actually, I find all the IBM docs I use now seem to have
the TOC and Index set up to be page jump sensitive.
I no longer have any need for nor interest in BM format.
PDFs, IMO, are wonderful to print from. They are nice for serial reading
(oh, how do I bookmark so that I come back to where I left off?). The
stink for doing multi-book finds. Especially if the author of the books
didn't create a search index for them.
Well, you can load several PDFs into the reader then do
a search across all the docs.
Kind regards,
-Steve Comstock
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