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Where is the Current Development Version of the PDF ADE User's Manual?

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I've recently installed the 1.79.7475 development version of ADE and there is no pdf ADE User's manual in this install. And the pdf manual does not show up under the Help menu in ADE. The only manual I can find is the GP User's Manual, which is a pdf. Why is this main pdf User's manual not included in this install? I know there's a link to the online manual but I prefer the off line PDF version of manuals.

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You can find a PDF version of the manual here. It can be awkward to navigate to scruffyducksoftware.com, but generally, when I develop things, I distribute only the latest builds of the absolutely most relevant software and I heavily rely on my testers to fill the gaps with what has been already previously supplied.

I know, this places the redundancy of sourcing the not so latest files onto the user, as opposed to myself and I hope they will forgive this oversight and understand I instead focus on improving the software. I don't know if Jon has this same philosophy, but he does seem to work very hard at providing excellent software.
 
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You can find a PDF version of the manual here. It can be awkward to navigate to scruffyducksoftware.com, but generally, when I develop things, I distribute only the latest builds of the absolutely most relevant software and I heavily rely on my testers to fill the gaps with what has been already previously supplied.

I know, this places the redundancy of sourcing the not so latest files onto the user, as opposed to myself and I hope they will forgive this oversight and understand I instead focus on improving the software. I don't know if Jon has this same philosophy, but he does seem to work very hard at providing excellent software.
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Thanks Rick. This is the older version manual but I suppose the information reflects the 1.79 version since every thing seems to work the same way.

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Yep, I usually wait to write the manual until the release is done being developed. I don't know if Jon does things the same way, but he does make excellent software, there's that.
 
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1.65 is the last full pdf manual and the changes in later versions up to 1.79 are not major and many of these are covered in the on-line help. The biggest changes version to version these days are when a new version of P3D is released that changes the underlying bgl format

I try to document roughly as I go along which is what you see in the pdf notes for ADE 2020 but I am primarily a programmer and not a documentor :(
 
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