whet my appetite for an honest to goodness
textbook.
Sigh. Somebody is still making those? I know what you mean. A big selling point for me is the weight of a 3D software box. If there isn't a hefty manual in there, then I'm not interested. As we used to say about Macs back in the old DOS days (before MS became Mac Lite, even before 'Bob'), "Intuitive means 'comes with an 800 number.'" Hands-on learning is great, but without a layer of internalized knowledge, intelligently compressed into words, it's slow going.

Of course, hefty's no guarantee of useful, or even of coherent. The Poser manual is actually pretty good, I think; another reason the "Revealed" alternate manual is redundant. But I've been itching to speak up about a major product I will never use (I recently bought a competitor, and won't be looking back) because the manual was translated into some simulation of English. I worked in the translation industry for years, and we took pride in treating target languages with respect and intelligence. Shoddy translation is insulting.

Literacy is not perfect. But it's better than the alternatives.

M

Message edited on: 12/28/2005 07:39