Kirk, I also like Linux but I run win7 x64 and was running virtual-box running Redhat,Fedora and Solaris to name a few. Up side of software deveLopment, we also use VMWare..
Regards, Scott Sent from my iPad On Jan 4, 2012, at 5:00 PM, Kirk Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
