At 09:03 AM 11/20/04 +0100, Jari Williamsson wrote: >The only thing that isn't easy to do is to make additions/corrections to >the existing pages in the on-line manual (but that isn't probably >allowed anyway, so...).
Isn't allowed? If it's HTML, you just make the changes. There's no PDF nanny. And that's the single biggest advantage for me. I only use the PDF manual's index and never print the manual pages. I don't need full searches (which Windows can do if you really need it with Start -> Find -> Files or Folders containing text by directory) and don't care how it breaks on the page. There are some folks here who talk about wanting printed manuals. I once agreed with that, but no longer. I have a shelf of manuals behind me that are just wasted paper. The only manual I use for Finale is the character set card, and the pages of notes I've had to make because I *can't* add them to the manual. At 11:24 AM 11/20/04 +0100, Johannes Gebauer wrote: >What was the disadvantage of PDF manuals again? You can't change them. With HTML, I would immediately fold in the manuals for plugins (some are already in HTML) as appendices, add them to the navigation and *especially* to the index. I could imagine such a modified manual being shared and the number of "you can do this with X plugin" responses dropping enormously. Likewise, I could add animated GIFs and AVI/MOV files to HTML manuals to demostrate exactly how to work with certain obscure elements of the program. I could also add and remove bug and workaround sections by dropping in links as needed. I could add my scribbled personal work notes, and change the style/size of elements which always trip me up. In terms of pure work style, I always have multiple browser pages open. So unless there's some trick I've never seen with PDF, I cannot have multiple pages open at once. With HTML, my browser can open multiple pages and I can CTL-TAB (or ALT-TAB for some browsers) among them. Sure, it would help if someone volunteered to coordinate a kind of user's "open source" version, but once you've seen a really good HTML manual -- unless you're a committed "paper person" -- you'll never want PDF again. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
