On Apr 16, 2020, at 21:32, J. David Bryan via cctech wrote: > > On Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 8:52, Alan Perry via cctech wrote: > >> 1. One document is a software installation manual in a loose leaf >> binder with other documents. It has a title page, tables of contents, >> etc., several chapters, and then it gets interesting. It has several >> appendix sections (starting at A), an index, then more appendix >> sections (starting at A as well), and then another index. The document >> title and its font match of the second set of appendix sections and >> second index matches the table of contents and chapters. > > I've scanned roughly 450 manuals. What you describe might be the result of > a manual update. Some updates include replacement pages, with the intent > that the replaced pages are discarded. I've encountered manuals, though, > where both the old and new pages were kept, perhaps to retain a record of > the changes.
TRVTH. I used to do exactly this when HP sent updates. I put replaced pages at the back of the manual, and usually did not refer to them thereafter. When the binder filled up, that’s when I might consider discarding them. HP had the habit of printing the update date and sometimes update number near the bottom of the updated pages. >> Should I create two different pdfs with different appendix sections or >> create a single pdf with both sets? > > Where both old and new pages were present, and where they could be > differentiated clearly, I made a separate PDF for each manual printing. > That is, I'd have two PDFs with the same part number with different print > dates -- one containing the old (original) pages, and the other containing > the new (replacement) pages. See, for example: Sometimes I have come across shrink-wrapped manuals and later updates, and scanned them as found. I wouldn’t want to deny other people the opportunity to apply updates to manuals, you know? -Frank McConnell
