Re: How do you take your docs, HTML or PDF?

I vastly prefer pdf over html - partly because the pdf looks so much more like the original books. (and after the first 12 years of reading the manuals I found my eyeballs could spot the new bits without my brain getting in the way ;)

Other have mentioned various conveniences of pdf - the one I particularly like is the fact that Acrobat 5 lets you rotate the page 90 degrees, so you can see a full size document page on screen at decent print size, and your laptop becomes almost as good the original book - and a couple of pounds lighter too.

But what I really want to get my hands on is a tablet PC, running acrobat, to see if I can get the 'sticky note' software to allow me to scribble on the manual pages. (And then give me a searchable file of my notes as a bonus).

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Noons wrote in message ...


>Following up on John Russell, 21 Feb 2003:

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>PDF for just about everything other than API doco.

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>View online.  It's searchable as a single document.  HTML isn't.

>Besides, most of the Oracle manuals come with the two pane thing

>(index and text panes).   Great stuff.

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>Use a notebook, carry it everywhere.

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>In XP and 2K, you can associate comments with the name of each file

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>they show up as well in the pop-up window you get when resting

>the mouse over the file in explorer.  Quite handy.

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