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RE: What doc formats do readers actually use? Was, "what doc formats do READERs want ?"
Subject:RE: What doc formats do readers actually use? Was, "what doc formats do READERs want ?" From:"Porrello, Leonard" <lporrello -at- illumina -dot- com> To:'Gene Kim-Eng' <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>, "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:43:11 +0000
Interesting. My team just changed buildings, and several unused Frame 7 manuals were thrown out. BTW, I agree that Adobe online help "blows chunks."
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Subject: Re: What doc formats do readers actualy use? Was, "what doc formats do READERs want ?"
All the time. IMO the online help for FrameMaker has always blown chunks.
The only Adobe app with worse help is Acrobat.
Gene Kim-Eng
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Porrello, Leonard
<lporrello -at- illumina -dot- com>wrote:
> If you are using an older version of Frame, how often did/do you use
> the bundled, printed user guide?
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