Re: Info Center: Links in PDF Manuals -- MIDRANGE-L

Thanks for your answer. It's not what I wanted, of
course. Esp. the syntax diagrams, where I have to
download lots of little things to get what I want.

It seems that you all insist on some kind of
inter/intranet delivery. I for one do not work like
this. I don't know if I am in a preponderance here -
maybe not.

This general disintegration (I know, not quite the right
word, but it's late) of manuals into little bits is not,
IMO, working out for the best. It would still be worth
something, for me, to have a manuals as units that are
now broken apart. It's just NOT handy to have to jump
around for closely related material.

Anyway, thanks again
> Hopefully, this post will answer some of the questions that have been asked
> about PDF books in the Info Center.
>
> One of the questions was about links that work on the Internet site but not
> when the PDF is downloaded and opened locally.  This problem is caused by
> the use of relative links within the PDF books; the links are not fully
> qualified urls so they do not always work when the book is moved.  For the
> links to work correctly, all linked-to books and topics need to be in the
> same root directory structure.  Why did we do this?  We also provide the
> Info Center and the PDFs on CD-ROM and provide install wizards so that you
> can create your own Info Center on an iSeries, LAN drive, or PC.  Since you
> can choose the root directory structure for these installs, we had to stay
> with relative links or none of the links would work.  I don't know of a
> work around except maintaining two sets of books (that is not an accounting
> statement) one for the Internet and one for the CDs.  The problem would
> still occur if someone moved a book (from the CD version) to another
> directory.
>
> A second question was on the links to the syntax diagrams not working in
> the CL Reference PDFs (on the INternet or locally).  Actually, these are
> working as designed (by necessity).  The tools used to create the CL API
> PDF volumes did not provide support for creating the links correctly.  FYI
> - this is stated in the introductory paragraph to the CL PDF volumes at
>
>
> 
>http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/html/as400/v5r1/ic2924/info/rbam6/rbam6printingme.
> htm
>
>
>
> FYI - to see a list of all topics available for printing (in PDF) in the
> Info Center, go to
>
>
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/html/as400/v5r1/ic2924/info/rzahgicprinttoc.htm
>
>
>
> For a list of PDF manuals available for printing, go to the Supplemental
> Manuals site:
>
>       http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/html/as400/v5r1/ic2924/rzaqhindex.htm
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,  Jerry Barry
>
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