Sven H wrote:Hendrik Proosa wrote:Marc Wielage wrote:The problem with making the manual available online is there are situations where a) an online connection isn't available, or b) facilities want to prevent system computers from getting online to prevent piracy and other information leaks.
How does any of this prevent you from reading the manual that came with installer? Online help should be additional to installer carried help because not every time when someone wants to check or read something from help is one behind desk and/or has Resolve running.
Also, many workstations do not have an internet connection for various of reasons.
I do not think adding an online documentation is a bad idea per se. I just don't feel the need to spend resources on managing the well written manual plus an extra web version.
And I haven't seen any good examples of online documentations yet aswell.
Mmm, it's 2022, I was web developer back in the days (15-20 years ago), and even then, I was able to make html pages and PDF version of them from coming from an unique source.
There si nothing complicated, and any junior dev can do it not even in a day. It's not a lack of resources. I mean, yeah, you have to do it once, then each time the manual is updated, the web and the PDF versions are generated at the same time.
No needs to manage anything more than what exists already. The content would be exactly the same. The only difference is how quick it would be indexed, and searchable/usable.
For the "puriste", the online version could look almost exactly the same as the PDF version. But so much lighter. Nothing can beat CSS with simple text.
FL Studio (like hundreds of other company) has an online version :
https://www.image-line.com/fl-studio-le ... ne-manual/ - with a search box that will suggest terms