What happened to downloadable Dreamweaver CC 2017 User Guide?

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
October 12, 2017
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Does anyone know when Adobe is going to author user guides for their applications? All I can find is tutorials. Help PDFs used to be available, but it seems this is not available. I understand the issue of expensive printed manuals, so, what about PDFs?

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Nancy OShea

Community Expert

UPDATE: Evidently what happened, there was a technological breakdown earlier this year in the PDF creation process which has now been fixed, but hiring people to manage the PDF creation has been challenging. PDF User Guides will be brought back sometime after the new year. No word yet on actual dates, however. So hang tight and in the meantime, feel free to post questions in this user forum.

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

pziecina

Legend

There has been much talk about the lack of comprehensive written user guides for ALL Adobe applications over the last few years. The current on-line version can be found at -

https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/user-guide.html

The problem with user guides, is just what does one include in them, should it be 'how to' or just a simple what feature does what. Adobe does produce a number of getting started articles and videos, but unless users know how to use html, css and javascript, (unfortunatly many do not) and understand the basics of web development, many questions from beginners go unanswered in those articles/videos, (as they should, it is not the job of Adobe or anyone on these forums to teach such subjects).

G

garincincy2Author

Participating Frequently

What's wrong with updating the last available comprehensive User Guide? I've seen quotes that "90%" of the information available on the last known PDF version is still valid. So a rewrite would only include the remaining 10% updated information. I've been a Adobe User since the late 80s, and I learned MUCH from the User Guides through the years. I'm sure others would appreciate a PDF of the current application. I was aware of the "help" guide before I clicked on the link you sent. I find it to be totally unsatisfactory. This falls far short of the information available on the older User Guides. I would personally be willing to purchase a hard copy of such a manual. Who else but the creators of the application could do this? Just saying.

Preran

Legend

From what I understand, downloadable versions of help documents were done away with because a vast majority of users that use Dreamweaver have access to the Internet. Also, it is quicker and simpler to create and update online documents as it is to create a downloadable version because of the various production and localization tasks involved.

Having said that, I will share this post with the content team to see if they have any plans of reintroducing downloadable PDF files in the future.

Thanks,

Preran

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