Size and search are secondary concerns when searching manuals though any software that conserves space and time is admirable. Many corps are paper conscious so online readability and document navigation is important.
Also pdf's are compatible with other tools when writing design documents and preparing presentations while book manager makes tranfer of quotable material more difficult. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kent Ramsay Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 4:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 1.5 Manuals, pdf's and bookshelves 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...." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
