Eric, Wayne, et al.,
As you know, I'm also a pro technical writer and graphic illustrator, and I
must say this preliminary manual is truly an excellent piece of work. Just
scanning through it quickly, I saw only one typo and a couple of pissant
punctuation errors :-) -- which, for a preliminary draft, is truly in a
league of its own quality-wise. Wow! I would be very, very proud to have done
this kind of work. You guys are to be sincerely congratulated.
There is a small problem on the block diagram on the last page that I thought
I'd comment on. A number of specific type elements are oversize -- the
upper-case "I", the lower-case "l", the hyphen, and the period: basically any
character whose vector definition is a single vertical or horizontal straight
line. The absolute difference in terms of measurement is probably miniscule,
but the way Acrobat works, whenever it sees any difference in weight-producing
dimensions, even a mil, between two otherwise similar objects, it tries to
over-emphasize that difference visually at lower zoom levels, since it could
be important. The source of the vectors for the PDF looks to me like a
CAD/layout program, because the type objects aren't really type -- they're
just arbitrary vector objects as far as a Postscript engine like Acrobat is
concerned.
There are a number of post-process approaches you could make that would fix
this, or redo the whole diagram in Adobe Illustrator or similar. But then you
would have to re-do those tweaks every time you spun the manual. Not good.
:-) Probably not worth fixing if that's what you have to do.
Again, TERRIFIC job. As David said, it takes a pro in this field to know just
how hard it is to do it this well.
Bill / W5WVO
PS -- You might be able to specify a different base typeface for the text in
the drawing (if the concept of "typefqace" or "font" exists in this app), and
this magnifying effect with Acrobat might not happen. I'd have to be familiar
with the source app to know for sure.
David Wilburn wrote:
VERY Impressive Document. All I have done is a first scan. I do
technical documentation for a living. The zoom spot images and text
around the images, very well done. The document has a very modern
feel, and immediately gives me a feeling of what I am up against as a
reader (do not yet have a K3 on order, but hope to). The document
significantly sets Elecraft apart from others.
After building the K2, so many of the steps are similar to other
activities in the past, and those very familiar. Awesome photographs,
and again, very impressive on how they are integrated into the
document. I know how hard that is to do well. May I be so bold as
to ask what software you use for documentation?
I'm still having a hard time wrapping my head around having a brand
new K3 to play with, and having to take it apart and photograph the
assembly. OUCH!
David Wilburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K4DGW
K2 #5982
FP#-1751
Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ Elecraft wrote:
We've just uploaded the K3 basic assembly manual (pre-release
version) to the K3 web page. You can directly access it at:
http://www.elecraft.com/K3/K3%20Assembly%20Manual%20Prelimnary_s.pdf
(It's 3 MB)
If that link wraps in your email viewer, try:
http://snipurl.com/1qjwe
73, Eric WA6HHQ
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