Marian Petrides wrote:
> 1) First of all, for a product costing $350 there should be SOME printed
> documentation OR at least the ability to easily print a PDF document, a Word
> file something like that.
The ability to print from the Transcript Dictionary is essential, I agree.
I hope that's on the list for 1.1 or soon thereafter.
But personally I'd rather not see the Rev folks spend the kind of money
needed for good printed docs on anything other than features and better docs
content. As long as I can print as needed I'm happy, and supplying printed
documentation as comprehensive as Rev's was a major contributing factor to
the downfall of at least one IDE vendor.
Asymetrix costs $2,495, and the only printed doc is an introduction to the
product; even at that price they've had to cut costs by putting all the
meaty stuff in online docs.
We users would be trading a great many features for a bound manual, and with
the rapid growth of the feature set any printed docs would be obsolete
within months.
Would printing from the online docs suffice for what you need?
This issue of online-vs.-printed docs also raises a more philophical
question for all of us as designers of multimedia:
What criteria determine when a body of work is optimal
as printed matter or as hypermedia?
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