RE: IDS9.4 manuals in HTML

#1 (**permalink**) 04-19-2008, 06:39 PM

Obnoxio The Clown wrote
>
> >
> > As a rabid anti PDF user, I thought others might be
> interested in this
> > info I have been given by docinfo.
> >
> >> Also, if you are interested, there are currently IDS 9.4
> versions of
> >> several manuals in HTML format in the DataBlade Developer's
> >> Kit InfoShelf,
> >> at this URL:
> >>
> >>
> http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/i.../library/dbdk/
index.html

What's wrong with PDF? 0:-)

You cannot cut and paste across a page break
You cannot view a multiple column page properly unless you have a megabucks
screen
You cannot view text across a page break
.....
ad nauseum.

Still, I should be old enough and ugly enough not to feed the trolls.:-()

Colin B

sending to informix-list

#2 (**permalink**) 04-19-2008, 06:39 PM

Colin Bull wrote:

> Obnoxio The Clown wrote
>>
>> >
>> > As a rabid anti PDF user, I thought others might be
>> interested in this
>> > info I have been given by docinfo.
>> >
>> >> Also, if you are interested, there are currently IDS 9.4
>> versions of
>> >> several manuals in HTML format in the DataBlade Developer's
>> >> Kit InfoShelf,
>> >> at this URL:
>> >>
>> >>
>> http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/i.../library/dbdk/
> index.html
>
> What's wrong with PDF? 0:-)
>
> You cannot cut and paste across a page break
> You cannot view a multiple column page properly unless you have a
> megabucks screen
> You cannot view text across a page break
> ....
> ad nauseum.
>
> Still, I should be old enough and ugly enough not to feed the trolls.:-()

Far be it from me to imply a troll-feeding effort on your part, but may I
recommend a combination of "Vision Express" and ALT-V | Continuous?

I'm old enough to share your vision deficiencies and I use a 1024 x 768
screen and the multi column I'm looking at isn't great but it's legible.

And by using View | Continuous I was able to read across two separate pages
on one screen _and_ cut and paste across the page break.

So, given all that, what's wrong with PDF?

>

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