The choice to go paperless is the obvious one. Early adopters simply kept up
with the development of the tools. Those that buck the goads are becoming as
obsolete as the paper they print on.

I suggest purchasing Adobe Acrobat. Then you can put collapsible post-it
notes all over the pdf's and save them that way. The datasheets I commonly
work with are done like this and saved on HDD. (ref the earlier discussions
on backing-up data)

If so many datasheets are already available as pdf's, why insist on
converting them to .docs?

It seems that while word docs have become popular for home users, pdf's have
become standard fare for businesses for many, many reasons. Ever take a
multi-page document and compare the size of the saved file as both a .doc &
a pdf? the current distiller makes wonderfully small files that are easily
edited, marked and extensible.



> Guess I am in the minority here. I wish all documentation
> came as PDFs, and
> I almost never find myself printing it out. I do use a 1600 x
> 1200 pixel LCD
> notebook display (tiny pixels, but my close-up eyesight is
> still pretty
> good). I just "Alt-Tab" flip from the datasheet to my editor,
> or sometimes
> arrange them both on the screen.
ubject: Re: [PIC]: Dual Monitors to view .pdf's and code
>
>
> > > Is there a better way? Should I use dual monitors and use more
> > > power? How many of us use hard copy as reference during code
> > > development?
> >
> > I always print out the basic manual and generally refer to others
> > as pdfs. As Spehro says, a hard copy is good for scribbling in.
> > The last one I ran off was the 18F452 manual, which is a whopping
> > 20mm thick (couldn't be stapled - I had to nail / glue it)
> but it's worth
> > it. As for the trees - well, I like to think a manual is
> not a waste of
> > paper compared to all the newspapers, packaging, junk mail,......

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