On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 16:00:27 -0600, 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. > All fine and well, but you remain stuck to it being .PDF and not .BOO and hence you lack the ease of navigation (to name just one feature) Library Reader is offering. >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 And in the end it becomes a lot of work that used to be not needed at all when we still had Library Reader. Sorry for insisting so much. I had to release some of the pressure due to my frustration... Jantje. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
