FWIW, we use Linux on our desktops and have found that the following
process works fantastic for IBM manuals. Something similar might be
possible on Windoze (or OSX) with a similar tool or under cygwin, but I
haven't tried it.
1) Use the "DownLoadThemAll" FireFox plugin to download all of the PDFs at
once
2) I wrote the following shell script which makes symlinks to the original
file names, using the PDF "title".
This has the advantage that I can very quickly find a manual using "find
file name" in Nautilus, but the links between PDFs still work.
3) We use Evince as a reader, which works much better if you have fast
processor and even better if you put your manuals on an SSD.
I supposed that you could also use a PDF indexer, like Google Desktop, but
I haven't seen the need.
#!/bin/sh
# Make symlinks to all .pdf files in the current directory to names that
match their Title:
ls -1 *.pdf | while read f
do
echo "Examining: "$f
title=$(pdfinfo "$f" | grep "Title:" | cut -c17- | tr -d '/\\:' | tr ' '
'_')
if test -n "$title" -a ! -s "$title.pdf" ; then
echo "link $title.pdf -> $f"
ln -s "$f" "$title.pdf"
fi
done
Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com
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