16 Apr
2020
16 Apr
'20
11:18 p.m.
On Apr 16, 2020, at 21:32, J. David Bryan via cctech wrote:
Sometimes I have come across shrink-wrapped manuals and later updates, and
scanned them as found. I wouldn?t want to deny other people the opportunity
to apply updates to manuals, you know?
-Frank McConnell
On Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 8:52, Alan Perry via cctech wrote:
TRVTH. I used to do exactly this when HP sent updates. I put replaced
pages at the back of the manual, and usually did not refer to them thereafter.
When the binder filled up, that?s when I might consider discarding them.
HP had the habit of printing the update date and sometimes update number near
the bottom of the updated pages.
1. One document is a software installation manual
in a loose leaf
binder with other documents. It has a title page, tables of contents,
etc., several chapters, and then it gets interesting. It has several
appendix sections (starting at A), an index, then more appendix
sections (starting at A as well), and then another index. The document
title and its font match of the second set of appendix sections and
second index matches the table of contents and chapters.
I've scanned roughly 450 manuals. What you describe might be the result of
a manual update. Some updates include replacement pages, with the intent
that the replaced pages are discarded. I've encountered manuals, though,
where both the old and new pages were kept, perhaps to retain a record of
the changes. Should I
create two different pdfs with different appendix sections or
create a single pdf with both sets?
Where both old and new pages were present, and where they could be
differentiated clearly, I made a separate PDF for each manual printing.
That is, I'd have two PDFs with the same part number with different print
dates -- one containing the old (original) pages, and the other containing
the new (replacement) pages. See, for example: