RE: Navigating in PDF manuals

[Jeff Bull <Jeff.Bull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My company, which lives and breaths on manuals, recently converted a large
number of paper-based manuals into PDFs using a scanning and OCR technique.
It was quite successful I guess, but produced a similar result.  Perhaps IBM
have gone through a similar process, and in time we'll get everything in
html and genuine PDF format.  In the mean time we have to put up with this
PITB.

Kind regards,

Jeffrey E. Bull
OS400 Software Support Consultant

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-----Original Message-----
From: Winchester Terry [mailto:terry.winchester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 11 July 2003 12:03
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Navigating in PDF manuals


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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