Nice to hear there's a fellow bigot. Here are the results of a test and a
couple of observations:
* I have 150 z/OS 1.4 documents in a BookManager bookshelf taking up
325Mbytes. I have 148 of the same PDF documents in a Windows directory that
takes almost 2Gbytes. That's more disk space than all my z/OS, OS/390,
CICS, IMS, DB2 and other BookManager books combined.
* BookManager search found "MVS" in 35 seconds. PDF search took over 8
minutes.
* On the other hand, bring up a PDF and you just have to hit UP, DOWN, ENTER
or the space bar to move from page to page. BookManager usually takes
multiple key strokes to do anything.
Acrobat Reader is great for reading. BookManager has it hands down on both
size of the document and searching.
Kent
Kent Ramsay
Senior System Programmer, SRDC
P 425.564.9735 | F 425.564.9701
www.webMethods.com
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Don Deese
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 8:08 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: 1.5 Manuals, pdf's and bookshelves
I am a BookManager bigot.
I use Acrobat Reader 7.0 for Redbooks and other non-BookManager documents
from IBM (and others). However, I completely agree with Rob Scott's
comment: "As good as Acrobat Reader is as a 'reader' - it ain't a searcher.
Put in your search and then go and get a coffee, a Danish and smoke a
ciggy...."
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