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Gray_Lensman -> RE: Hard copy or download? (6/23/2007 7:19:55 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Ironclad
You can have the best of both worlds by getting the pdf version and printing it yourself. I use a cheap and simple printer, although it does take a few (low cost) cartridges plus some time to print out a FOF length colour manual. I have the published manual too but prefer using my A4 sized version (which includes all the appendices). It also means you can choose to print out any revisions.
I would add that the printed manual is a fine one and all credit to Matrix for now supplying them with the cased versions for those who want it.
re:PDF manuals
That's kind of the approach I've taken to them. A cheap Lexmark printer now prints better quality than the old Hp Desktops. I've gotten to the point where I prefer them now over printed manuals, (easier to search), with the exception that the smaller printed manuals were sometimes nicer to take to work for breaktime reading. I thought originally that PDF manuals would be updated more by the developers, but that has not turned out to be the case, which has been rather disappointing, and editing a PDF document directly doesn't work. I finally went out and got Adobe Acrobat Professional, so I can at least reproduce similar looking pages to replace those pages in manuals that have really obvious errors.
slightly OT:
Adobe Acrobat Professional however does not generally allow you to directly edit the final PDF document, so that was rather frustrating to find out after I had purchased it. However, it does place direct hooks into MS Word and MS Excel for automatic conversion of their format into PDF documents, which really streamlines the conversion of those types of documents.
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