I agree on the speed issue.

Adobe Acrobat 6 is a joke. The FIND processes is ridiculous, making you
have to use the mouse, whether you like it or not (under V5, you used to
be able to repeatedly do a CTRL-F to either find again or change the
search value. Now a CTRL-F brings up the annoying "find pane").




Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU>
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02/05/2004 02:50 PM
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        Subject:        Viewing PDF manuals online


Just thought I'd mention...

There have been observations that viewing PDFed manuals online is a
drudge,
making one want to keep hardcopies of TSM manuals to flip through to
quickly
get to information.  Having had only hardcopy manuals my first 20 years in
data processing, I understand.

I've been a Macintosh user since about 1986 and recently got a G5 for my
office workstation.  In Mac OS X (whose standard document model is PDF) is
an application called Preview, for viewing PDF and graphics file.  Its
speed
is incredible, making online PDF use a joy.  I used Acrobat Reader before
this
- which was the speed of a tortoise...enough to discourage anyone from
viewing
PDFs on-screen.  But Preview is like lightning: as you type the phrase you
want to find, Preview is already finding hits for you.  By the time I've
finished typing the phrase, it has found them all.

If you have any say in your workstation choice, this is the way to go.
I can now search a huge manual in seconds.  I never bother with hardcopy
manuals any more, saving lots of storage space and much personal time.

   Richard Sims