1-Stop everything and do a specialist job that you're not really equipped to do: There are people documenting things in the online help, it is just a mess in collation and accessibility. My whole point is the need to be equipped, they used to be equipped. Great software with poor documentation is greatly diminished in value. 2-huge problem with manuals is that to do them well is a specialist job: and there is a ready market of highly skilled people who can do this work, the cost is a reasonable part of documentation, much of the core material is already written in the coders outline of the program. There are a number of software solutions for tracking and cataloging this material for a technical writer 3-costs a lot of money: Adobe is a very profitable company, and the cost of well executed documentation is not prohibitive.Most companies actually write it. 4-And these costs are not insignificant; if you had the manual you desired, you'd end up paying significantly more for the software. Simply not true 5-it would have to be rewritten on an almost constant basis: No it would not. You write the core manual and then issue the "whats new addendum" With the exception of Adobe, almost all of my technical, production software has usable and effective documentation. Companies whose products I use with decent documentation (PDF or online); Newtek Lightwave, Cakewalk by Bandlab, iZotope plugins, Resolve, Syntheyes, Sound Forge, Falcon synth, Hybrid synth, Plexus particles, Stardust,Red Giant trapcode, ViaCad, blender, Dogwaffle Howler, Handbrake, Spyder color management, Acronis True Image, Roland Cloud, Directory Opus, SyncBack, Mocha Pro, DJI Phantom, 3D Coat, BOME Midi translator, VUE 9, KORG Soft Synths, LoopCloud, SynthMaster, Native Instruments, Stienberg, Video CoPilot..... on & on! Several of these are one man bands. Adobe does not need defending for poor product documentation. I appreciate fellow users and moderators on forums. Utilize user groups. View tutorials and go to online training... all of these. None of them are a substitute for proper documentation. The PDF manuals issued in the spring of 2018 for Premiere and After Effects prove that adobe is quite capable of producing them. What's lacking is the decency to treat the end user with respect.
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