LaserSoft Imaging

To anyone who hasn't already done so, check out the new manual Silverfast put up today, definitely make time to do so. It's much improved. As a technical writer, I can say that it's very well written and organized. They've added almost 100 pages to the manual, and it covers everything.

http://www.silverfast.com/download/pdfs-en.html

-Ian A.

Good deal. Though my own sense of timing couldn't be worse - just 2 days ago I printed out all 178 pages of the old manual!

--Paul

A few typos but I won't complain.

On a sader note: 270+ pages to my office colour laser brought th entire network down - kaaboom 180 terminals lying dead whilst they tried to find the culprit

I've been telling IT for months that 1gig of print spool space was inadequate for this many users especially with colour lasers connected. The manual spooled to best part 400Meg. I think I can see a new print spool server coming



Ian

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: ilyons on 2001-10-25 18:57 ]</font>

Can I buy a copy of the new manual from LaserSoft?

I think that will be as quick as printing my own!

It seems that the criticism of the previous manual was worthwhile, and was listened to: the new version is a big improvement. Since the English language is good, my hunch is that Ian accepted the invitation, went Kiel and made a valuable contribution.

Those with phone lines would benefit by having the manual available for downloading in several smaller sections.

Three minor remarks:

On page 1 the SCSI ID 7 is inaccurately described as being used by the CPU: in fact, it is the default ID of the SCSI host adapter. Moreover, SCSI ID 0 may be assigned to a non-bootable hard drive.

SilverFast's main dialog, and the manual, p.27, state the scan resolution in d[ots]pi/d[ots]pcm units. Shouldn't the units be p[ixels]pi/p[ixels]pcm?

On p. 241 of the manual, in the formula
"Scan rez = (Output rez) X 1.4 X (Scale-factor)" shouldn't there be Q instead of 1.4, since the quality factor Q can be chosen in the main dialog?


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Tomaz Klinc on 2001-10-29 10:15 ]</font>

Have we not come as far in the electronic age as I thought? A couple of you said;

>"just 2 days ago I printed out all 178 pages."

>"270+ pages to my office colour laser brought the entire network down."

I keep my copy on the hard drive. No dead trees, no new print servers needed, and no need to print a new copy when a new version comes out. But, that's just me.

On 2001-10-29 22:33, ronniewillis wrote:
Have we not come as far in the electronic age as I thought? A couple of you said;

>"just 2 days ago I printed out all 178 pages."

>"270+ pages to my office colour laser brought the entire network down."

I keep my copy on the hard drive. No dead trees, no new print servers needed, and no need to print a new copy when a new version comes out. But, that's just me.

I'm not always at a computer that has SilverFast or the manual installed. However, my emails follow me around like a well trained dog. No paper manual and I'm beat.

Ian

As convenient as PDF files are, I find them to be miserable substitutes for printed manuals.

Editing and note taking is much faster with hard copy and pencil than the annotation and markup functions that Acrobat provides.

Besides, I still haven't found a convenient way to drag a computer to the loo (and no, a notebook computer does not solve that problem!)

--Paul

On 2001-10-29 22:33, ronniewillis wrote:
Have we not come as far in the electronic age as I thought? A couple of you said;

>"just 2 days ago I printed out all 178 pages."

>"270+ pages to my office colour laser brought the entire network down."

I keep my copy on the hard drive. No dead trees, no new print servers needed, and no need to print a new copy when a new version comes out. But, that's just me.