Darren New schrieb:
> clipka wrote:
>> At $10K a license, you'd expect them to be able to have one of the 
>> copies scanned, OCR'ed and proofread...
> 
> Oh, they did that for the manual for the previous version of the 
> machine. They scanned it and packaged up the pile of GIFs into a PDF. 
> Except some pages were missing. And some were out of order. And some 
> were crooked and half cut off. And it was completely unsearchable 
> because it was just GIFs. And all the examples were originally 
> black-on-grey and in the B&W scan were nicely black on black. And it 
> wasn't even the final manual, as there were hand-written notes in the 
> margin like "I couldn't get the table to come out, so it's not in this 
> draft."

So, to make a long story short, actually they did /not/: They did the 
scanning, but skipped the OCR and proofreading steps...

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