RE: Navigating in PDF manuals -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: RE: Navigating in PDF manuals
From: Winchester Terry <terry.winchester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 07:02:50 -0400
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LOL....Yeah, it really sucks :(

Maybe we could append a page offset to the filename.

Of course, if you have multiple documents open you'd
have to switch your mental calculator on/off 
repeatedly to determine where to go ;-)

I don't believe IBM put as much time into creating
their PDF documents as they did their Book Manager :(  

Terry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: oliver.wenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:oliver.wenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 6:37 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: Navigating in PDF manuals
> 
> Terry,
> 
> >The best work around I've found is to remember the
> >number of pages that are offset and then calculate
> >the actual page number in your your head :)
> 
> If only every manual had the same number of offset pages...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Oliver

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