[volt-nuts] Looking for Fluke 845AB manual

[Dave M]

> David wrote:
>
>> You can purchase a complete high quality PDF of the 845A/AB manual
>> from Dave Henderson at http://www.artekmedia.com .  I just purchased
>> a download of the manual for $10 US, and can vouch for its
>> quality.   Very clear scans, with NO MISSING PAGES.  It's P/N
>> 294173, dated November 1967 copyright 1981.
>
> I have a couple of the Artek manuals.  I agree they are nice scans,
> but I will never buy another one until they quit maxing out the
> password security.  The ones I have are screwed down so tight you
> can't even rotate the pages to look at sideways schematics right-side
> up on the monitor.  All I care about is the original manual
> contents.  I don't care about the added features (OCR, bookmarking,> 
> whatever) -- in fact, I'd prefer that they weren't there, so I didn't
> have to close the bookmark window every time I opened the
> manual.  But you can't even use the basic scans as intended because
> of the insane security.  Anyone who is that paranoid about his
> product can keep it.
>


> Best regards,
>
> Charles
>

Charles, to some extent, you're correct about the tight security that Artek 
puts on their scanned manuals.  It's a bit unreasonable to prevent a 
purchaser from putting comments or notes in the documents.  I can understand 
why they don't allow disassembly of the documents... to prevent someone from 
removing their signatures and company info.  While it doesn't prevent 
copying and selling or giving to other people, it does preserve the 
originality of the scan.
I don't have any troube rotating pages in their PDFs; in fact, I don't 
remember any of the manuals I've bought from Artek having any of the pages 
rotated from normal viewing layout, so that's never been a problem for me.

David
dgminala at mediacombb dot net