Thanks for all the feedback here.. good ideas and pointers.. What I've decided on is:
- Keeping all the VM doc in PDF files on my laptop - Using Google Desktop (the Linux version of course) to find what I'm looking for. It would still be cool to do a 'help cpquery nss' or something similar from the Linux command line. And maybe I'll still look at cobbling together a CGI and using a localhost webserver to present the material... Again - thanks to all who responded here! Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 10:08 AM, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But, searching a PDF for a keyword is far less good than the search > > method in bookmanager read, both in performance and in the > > presentation of the search result. (Even though FoxitReader searches > > faster than Acrobat reader, both need to scan the whole PDF file what > > takes time). > > Only if the PDF is not indexed. If you use the full Acrobat package to > generate the PDFs, there is a pdfindex tool that can be used to generate > a index of a collection of PDFs. If you use that regularly, the search > performance is comparable between the two. >
