Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Adobe: Worse Help Files than Freaking Microsoft
As one might conclude from my post yesterday, my now top priority project is to redo our documentation for Dreamweaver and Photoshop, which Photoshop on the top of the pile, since I have to teach that sooner.
Not only have there been major changes between Photoshop CS and Photoshop CS3, I am now reminded why I hate help files and product documentation so much.
IF YOU CAN’T NAME AN ITEM CONSISTENTLY THROUGHOUT YOUR DOCUMENTATION, HOW ARE PEOPLE SUPPOSED TO USED YOUR DAMNED HELP FILES?
I kid you not. My first task is always to label the parts of the window, so I can put up a picture to refer to as I write. Except that Photoshop seems to have multiple names for several objects, so now I have to guess what names to use.
No wonder people never read the gorram documentation.