[Elecraft] "Exciting" manual to match "exciting" K3

[Tom Childers, N5GE]

On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 20:43:39 -0700, K3KO wrote:

>With the full Acrobat product, you can make an attempt to convert the PDF to 
>MS Word format. Depending on how structurally complex the document it, and 
>what the original source authoring software was, this will be more or less 
>successful -- usually less. If the conversion does replicate the original 
>format fairly well, though, you can edit the Word file and then re-PDF it (or 
>just leave it in Word for your own uses).
>
>In my corner of the professional tech pubs universe, however, this conversion 
>(and any other conversion of Adobe formats to Microsoft formats) works poorly 
>enough that it is not really useful. YMMV.
>
>Bill W5WVO
>
>

[snip]

I absolutely agree.

My experience is that using Acrobat for documentation is a waste of time,
especially if the text will ever need to be edited.

I worked for a national car loan company that had to keep up with the car loan
laws in all states in the USA and provinces in Canada.  If one changed it was a
major emergency as far as changing Repo letters, etc. and took much longer than
it would have if the company would have just used MS Word, Word Perfect or some
other word processor.  Not to mention that they made the changing of the form
letters the responsibility of the IT department instead of the legal
department?????

On the other hand I worked for a company that provided banking software whose
documentation in MS Word.  The changing of a document by a documentation
specialist was accomplished with minimal effort.

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