Personally, I've could never READ the Director manuals (except any
specific chapters that I was required to review). I learned using
OJT & a handful of third-party books. And of course I had the
advantage that as a last resort I could actually ASK. The funny
thing about asking was that fairly often people were unsure & what
the product actually DOES became the most complete answer.
I'm firm in my belief that an electronic manual could/should be
BETTER than the printed in terms of access to the content, but so far
the Help System has seemed like an electronic cousin of the paper
version with both versions suffering because of it.
& they both have generated LOTS of content complaints
(due largely do to the vastness of Director, IMHO).
Luckily, I've been pretty good at using whatever flavor of Help
System that MACR has delivered, even when I felt that some of them
were not an improvement. I sometimes hacked around their structure a
bit to make it a little more usable for myself.
just my opinions
-Buzz
At 6:42 PM +0200 6/26/05, you wrote:
Am 26.06.2005 um 12:28 schrieb James Newton:
As a result of this re-(dis)-organization, I find that I use the DMX 2004
printed documentation very little.
Hi James,
thanks for the info.
I've never heard anyone speaking of the printed manuals, therefore I asked.
I used the printed books from version to version less, therefore I
don't think, that for someone like me, who 'lives' in lingo it is of
advantage to shelve out the money (in the first years I also bought
a lot of books, which are not catching dust in the shelve).
I don't think, that it was a bad idea to save the paper of printed
manuals for people like me, while I think, that for a beginner (or
even intermediate) it is one of the *values* you used to get, when
purchasing software vs. downloading *from somewhere*.
I think it is somewhat contradictionary to remove the printed
manuals in the same release, when the activation is introduced.
As I already said, it is a good idea to save the paper and resources
for people like me, who put the thing in the shelve or even leave it
in the box, but the beginner, who is obliged to go through the
activation stuff, I think it would have been a better gesture to
leave the manuals as they were and send them after registration for
the postage costs only.
it now looks like as if the software company doesn't care much about
the customer, but rather is only interested in getting so much money
as possible.
but at least, they didn't sell the same books, which used to be included :-)
(even, if the enhencements are weak instead of just fixing the
errors and lame example snippets)
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