RE: Adobe Creative Suite's Design Guide or Scenarios instead of Manuals

Subject: RE: Adobe Creative Suite's Design Guide or Scenarios instead of Manuals
From: "Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L (E-mail)" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:59:35 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick Margulis
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:48 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Cc: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Adobe Creative Suite's Design Guide or Scenarios
> instead of
> Manuals
>
> Keri Morgret wrote:
> >
> > I just received my copy of Adobe's new Creative Suite (the new
> > Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign programs). Instead of
> shipping with
> > printed manuals (now a $50 option of the suite), it ships
> with a 92 page
> > Design Guide.
>
> Keri,
>
> For several years now, while Adobe manuals have had great production
> values (good typography, printing, etc.), their content has been
> word-for-word identical to online help, with no additional
> information.
> So the decision to charge $50 for those users who salivate over bound
> manuals makes sense...

I personally prefer online Help, but I know enough not to sneer at customers
who quite rationally prefer a bound manual.

Dan Goldstein




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