Ditto everything below, plus: I like being able to have a lot of manuals open at one time, and usually I can remember which one is which in my taskbar (and if not, hovering over it gives me the name), so I just click on the manual I want to look at -- very fast! With Acrobat, and maybe this is just me, but no matter how many manuals I open, I get only the one instance of Acrobat. To switch from one manual to another, I have to use the clumsy Window drop-down, and I can't look at two manuals at once. Has anyone gotten around that?
Thanks, Cathy -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward E. Jaffe Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 1:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Impossible? convert PDF to Book/Manager format? Mark Zelden wrote: >1) IMO, Bookmanager search is still better and faster. > > Much, much - *much* better -- especially across multiple books, bookshelves, bookcases, and collections. Yes, Acrobat 7.0 reintroduced the Acrobat 5.0 sequential find capability (which was ruined in Acrobat 6.0) and retains the Acrobat 6.0 book-wide Search capability. Big whoop. It still can't begin to touch the "fuzzy" matching capability inherent in all manifestations of BookManager in which different word forms (plurals, alternate endings, etc.) can be considered for a match. There are other issues as well. For example, not all PDF documents can be successfully searched. Depending on how they are built, many appear to not contain "text" but rather "images" of text. (One of the most frustrating aspects of the Acrobat PDF model!) This is *never* a consideration for BookManager. Acrobat has no analog for the bookshelf, bookcase, or collection concepts. All you get are a bunch of PDF documents in a file system. Add in superior cross-book linking capabilities, much better speed for all operations (it takes a while just to initialize Acrobat!), an excellent organizational infrastructure provided by Library Reader (choose either the multiplatforms edition or the z/OS edition), and the ability -- in an emergency -- to read/process softcopy books on the mainframe without any workstation involvement, and you can make a pretty strong case for continued BookManager use. Our largest customers have made it clear that they want and need continued support of BookManager softcopy format. We have heard them loud and clear! -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | Edward E. Jaffe | | | Mgr, Research & Development | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Phoenix Software International | Tel: (310) 338-0400 x318 | | 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 | Fax: (310) 338-0801 | | Los Angeles, CA 90045 | http://www.phoenixsoftware.com | ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else, unless expressly approved by the sender or an authorized addressee, is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action omitted or taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you believe that you have received this email in error, please contact the sender, delete this e-mail and destroy all copies. ============================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
