[Elecraft] Manual Updates

[John Ragle]

Dear list:

     It seems to me that these days the whole idea of a printed manual 
is somewhat beyond the pale.

     Elecraft makes these manuals & the corresponding errata available 
in *.pdf form for anyone to download, and we should be thankful that we 
have access to these files. They were doubtless composed upon a word 
processor capable of saving ("publishing") in *.pdf format, and it is a 
considerable additional expense for Elecraft to distribute these 
documents in tree-consuming form.

     While the original files are not editable in Acrobat, *.pdf file 
editors are available for free or for nominal cost on the internet, so 
one can edit the errata directly into the manual without difficulty.

     This is the way I have managed the errata sheets, but for obvious 
reasons I have either used a separate color or an ancillary notation to 
indicate that the additions were made by me upon the original Elecraft 
document for my own consumption. The editing software insists on 
changing the name of the file as well, so that anyone can see that it 
was not the original.

John Ragle -- W1ZI

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On 4/17/2011 11:38 AM, Someone wrote:

 >Why on earth did it come with a manual and a list of errata that is 
supposed to be cut and pasted to bring the manual up to date? >Surely, 
it wouldn’t have been much more time consuming for you to have made the 
changes to the manual itself.