As far as I know there are no plans to index or access Journal articles on the PTG website. Last year we studied the feasibility of an independent Journal website but abandoned the project as too expensive and labor intensive. The Journal CDs provide better access to articles than has ever been available before, and new CDs will be made to keep this resource up to date. Here is a step-by-step method of installing the CDs from Kent Swafford. This makes it easy to search all 20 years of Journals on the CDs at once. A word of advice: don't install the version of Adobe from the CDs. Go to the Adobe website and get the most recent version. INSTALLING THE 5 JOURNAL CD-ROMS TO A WINDOWS HARD DRIVE (Copying entire content of the CD¹s to a hard drive requires 2.51 gigs of free space.) 1. create a folder called journal 2. create a folder within journal called disk1ptg 3. create a folder within journal called disk2ptg 4. create a folder within journal called disk3ptg 5. create a folder within journal called disk4ptg 6. create a folder within journal called PTJarchive 7. insert cdrom disk one into drive 8. open cdrom 9. set a block over all items in disk one by rolling over from ctrl to A. 10. click copy 11. move to folder called disk1ptg 12. click paste. 13. wait 14. remove cdrom and put in disk two 15. open cdrom 16. select index and papers by holding down the ctrl key and clicking each one once. 17. click copy 18. move to folder called disk2ptg 19. click paste 20. wait 21. remove cdrom and put in disk three; open cdrom 22. select index and papers by holding down the ctrol key and clicking each one once. 23. click copy 24. move to folder called disk3ptg 25. click paste 26. wait 27. remove cdrom and put in disk four; open cdrom 28. select index and papers by holding down the ctrl key and clicking each one once. 29. click copy 30. move to folder called disk4ptg 31. click paste 32. wait 33. remove cdrom and put in reprint cdrom; open cdrom 34. select index, resource, index.pdx and piano.pdf by holding down the ctrl key and clicking each one once. 35. click copy 36. move to folder called PTJarchive 37. click paste 38. wait --------------------------------------------- 39. install adobe acrobat from disk1ptg folder 40. open any .pdf file from disk1ptg folder 41. click global search 42. click indexes 43. click add 44. open the folder called journal 45. open the folder called disk1ptg 46. open the folder called index 47. open the file called index.pdx 48. repeat steps 41 thru 47 selecting disk2ptg\index\index.pdx, disk3ptg\index\index.pdx, disk4ptg\index\index.pdx 49. repeat steps 41 thru 44. 50. open the folder called PTJarchive 51. open the file called index.pdx > That brings up a question I was about to ask. I remember at a cyber cafe a couple years ago being shown how to search the entire PTJ cd (both cd's) if they were loaded to the hard drive. IOW, > not separate searches for portions, but a single search of the entirety. Since I didn't have a large enough hard drive, I promptly forgot. Could someone give some brief instructions about how > that might work? My recollection is that it involved simply creating a single folder with a specific name, and dragging all the content files into it. > Thanks, > Fred Sturm > University of New Mexico > > "Jorgensen, Michael L" wrote: > > > Hello, > > Does the ptg website or anywhere have a search method for old PTJ articles by title subject or author. I'm looking for one which I think was called "The pitch wars" from years ago. > > -Mike Bob Hohf, RPT Editor, Piano Technicians Journal voice: 262-495-8058 fax: 262-495-2983 Editor@ptg.org
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