John, I have the same problem with PDFs , unless you spring for some pretty expensive software to do that.
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Feb 4, 2013, at 12:13 PM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > The main problem is a way to "mark up" the BM or PDF versions so that > you can share the marked up text. Depending on the software used, > bookmarking may also be an issue. The Kindle reader can display PDF > and you can also do bookmarking and mark up. But it is difficult to > share those. Okular on Linux can also do bookmarking and marking on > PDF files, but again they can't easily be shared. Well, perhaps if the > PDF is on a shared, writable, disk (NFS or CIFS or sshfs even). > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) > <[email protected]> wrote: >> In <[email protected]>, on 02/02/2013 >> at 10:54 PM, Ed Gould <[email protected]> said: >> >>> I hate PDF's and BKS ... Especially when I am not sure exactly >>> what I am looking for. With a real manual I can put a finger in >>> the current location and go wondering about the manual and if >>> needed I just go back to where my finger is. >> >> With proper formatting and proper viewing software there's no reason >> that you couldn't do everything with BM and PDF that you do with dead >> trees. It would be more productive to convince IBM to improve the >> tools rather than to push for restoring paper copies. >> >> -- >> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT >> Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> >> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. >> (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > -- > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
