Google Desktop seems to work fine for me at searching PDF's and other documents.. and searches my google mail where I archive all these mailing lists...
Scott Rohling p.s. And there's a Linux version for people like me :-) On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:58 AM, David Boyes <dbo...@sinenomine.net> wrote: > The key trick to getting around this with PDFs is to have access to a > full copy of Acrobat and regularly run ‘pdfindex’ to generate an index file > for all your PDF documents. You can give that index file to the PDF reader, > and your searches will work more like the Bookie ones (cross-book and > intra-book). I’d distribute my index file, but pdfindex generates a file > with absolute paths in it, so you’d have to organize your books the same way > I do for it to be useful. > > > > -- db > > > > > > *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] *On > Behalf Of *Jonathan R Nolting > *Sent:* Tuesday, September 07, 2010 1:44 PM > > *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > *Subject:* Re: BookManager format softcopy > > > > I agree. The bookshelf search is something that I use all the time as well. > I can't seem to get similar search results using the other documentation > media. > >
