QTR-Quadtone RIP

Judging from the forum posts here and my own experiences sofar with 
QTR, there is a lot of confusion about what QTR does and how to use 
it, so any improvements in the Help guide or user manual would be 
very helpful. However just not anybody will have the knowledge to 
make those improvements. I myself have significant experience in 
writing and editing highly technical manuals, but would be the 
absolutely wrong person to get involved here because of my lack of 
knowledge about QTR. Let's not get all excited and do the wrong thing!

Frans Waterlander

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen Billard" <stephen@...> 
wrote:
>
> But, the documentation is essentially open source. It was not 
written by Roy,
> but by a QTR user. It is published as a PDF for convenience, but I 
am sure Tom
> Moore would be more than happy to provide the original MS Word 
document to any
> and all who would wish to improve it.
> 
> I will certainly make the same offer for the QTRgui help. It is in 
HTML. Who is
> volunteering? 
> 
> By the way, I have been in computers since 1962 (and photography 
since the
> 1950's). I don't understand how the time in service has anything to 
do with
> ability to write or communicate. 
> 
> 
> -Stephen
>  www.sbillard.org/Stephen
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com 
[mailto:QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of Rob
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 5:41 AM
> To: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: A Glossary Would Be Helpful
> 
> 
> I am going to have to strongly disagree with the last post--and I 
have written a
> couple of computer books, including the first book on how to do 
research on the
> Internet back in 95. I have also written internal tip sheets at the 
company
> where I work.
> 
> For someone who has worked with computers since 81, unfortunately, 
I found some
> parts of the documentation cnfusing. For me, as new user, there was 
too much
> concentration on creating new curves and not enough on helping the 
newbie get
> the system up and running.
> 
> And the search function here on Yahoo Groups is not that good, if 
you are
> searching for specific hints.
> 
> I also understand that this a part time effort.
> 
> The solution is  to turn the documentation into open source...I 
have seen open
> source manuals that work well for other sofeware.
> 
> Those people with experience with the software rather than 
dismissing new users
> could take the time to write a few paragraphs on a section where 
they have a lot
> of experience or  have special hints and upload them to the file 
folders.  Then
> after a check by other users, the information can bue used to 
update the
> documentation.
> 
> Robin
>