From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 21 06:24:47 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C4161065670 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:24:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.grunewald@laposte.net) Received: from smtp6.netcologne.de (smtp6.netcologne.de [194.8.194.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6081A8FC08 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:24:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from llea.celt.neu (xdsl-213-196-246-202.netcologne.de [213.196.246.202]) by smtp6.netcologne.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA4482A09CD; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:24:45 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C1F05AD.8000509@laposte.net> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:24:45 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Gr=FCnewald?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100226 SeaMonkey/2.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon References: <473909.48600.qm@web36505.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20100619121117.bc9480f8.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20100619121117.bc9480f8.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: PDF storage software recommendations? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:24:47 -0000 Hi all, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:24:52 -0700 (PDT), Bill Tillman wrote: >> But put me >> down for a vote on this method using simple text files and awk. > > It JUST WORKS - that's the goal. It can be developed and configured > very fast, can easily be extended (or limited), and data is stored > in a STANDARD (!!!) format which allows you to do ANYTHING with > it. You can even provide a web-driven interface for the database, > even that is possible. I use for my work a solution matching Polytopon's suggestion, it sounds very to natural to the UNIX user in me :) I am a scientist and have to daily deal with an increasing amount of electronic papers, made available in PDF, DJVU, PostScript or even Tiff. I organised my library so that each document get its own directory. Each directory then contains the document file(s) per itself and meta information, stored along in files whose names are fixed (for instance +INDEX for general information, +BIBTEX for BibTeX fata, etc.). I only need a couple of hours to write a program easing the addition of a document to the library and another one generating a HTML index out of the meta informations, and while my system is far from perfect, it exists, and helps me every day. I also had to help colleagues in various ways with their computer, sometimes giving them some (seemingly) very unfriendly scripts I wrote. My experience with this, is that, provided I show these people how it works and supervise their first steps with the program, they can actually use it and like it, despite the fact that the experience offered by the program is at first not as nice to them as the one offered by a GUI. However, being a scientist, I would not consider my working environment as `standard', whatever it means! >> We have a Windows based system at my current job which uses >> FileMaker Pro. It's amazing what we can do with this and it's >> like having a gigantic electronic filing cabinet. > > Oh, the paperless office... an utopia - at least in Germany, > bureaucracy's home country. :-) I thought France was that :) Rules are sometimes changing so often that administrative staff does not always has time to catch up them all! Nevertheless all of this bureaucracy is sometimes very useful too---but it is always a bit annoying ;) Cheers, Michael