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As lousy as InfoSeeker is, I've gotten used to it. Just select the "All Books" bookshelf, then search for whatever you need, and let the PC find the info. I hope that the searchability they have now will be continued in whatever format they decide to use. I don't want to have to search through a lot of manuals 'by hand' instead of doing a global search on the entire documentation database. We don' t print out the manuals. Well, not all of them. PDF does a marvelous job of creating a printed manual. --Paul E Musselman PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com >>IBM will drop Infoseeker in the next release of OS/400. They plan to go >>ahead with the Internet in both HTML and PDF formats, and then plan to work >>on the Information Center CD. >> >>They don't like books, because they don't program on AS/400's. > > >I like IBM's move to PDF. I have paid for an HP printer with the money I >saved printing high-quality PDF downloadable files. Unfortunately, PDF isn't >intended for online use, it is _very poor_ navigational/search tools. > >To further add to the frustration of PDF being unusable as an interactive >aid, IBM has zapped the print button from the redbooks on the Web (the >feature that used to collect user-selected sections or chapters is gone!) >Thus, with redbooks your options are either download and print the entire >redbook or use your browser's HTLP print page at a time (which generally >features about 12 lines per page!). There is _no good way_ to print selected >portions from redbooks on the Web. > >The answer is simple and IBM needs to get the message (give it to 'em Al, >please!): > * Kill the current, nearly worthless softcopy library. > * HTML and PDF are fine formats--stick with them. I don't mind printing >entire books with the PDF format. With a good laser printer's two-up >feature, PDF provides great hard copy. > * Distibute manuals in both PDF and HTML on a CD and on the web--make >either easily downloadable. > * Put the print by section/chapter feature back on the Web for _all_ >books. > * Include a Windows desktop HTML print-by-chapter component with the new >HTML/PDF only softcopy library. > * And, fer cryin out loud, include a good x-ref index and search >facility. > >It seems so easy to me! > >rp +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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