Rick Christopherson Manuals

[WPeters]

These manuals are great!  A lot to be learned.  I printed off the pdf's for the tools we use at Office Depot and had them spiral bound.  Thanks for the great work Rick!  They can be found at Rick's website: http://www.waterfront-woods.com/festool/ or festool's website http://www.festoolusa.com/service/manuals/  

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[upscale]

These manuals are great!  A lot to be learned.  I printed off the pdf's for the tools we use at Office Depot and had them spiral bound.  Thanks for the great work Rick!

Can you tell me where you got the PDF's?  Thanks

 

[WPeters]

Can you tell me where you got the PDF's?  Thanks

I added the links to the original post...

 

[Sparktrician]

These manuals are great!  A lot to be learned.  I printed off the pdf's for the tools we use at Office Depot and had them spiral bound.  Thanks for the great work Rick!

Can you tell me where you got the PDF's?  Thanks

The PDFs are available on Rick's website.  

 

[Administrator_JSVN]

They are also available on the Festool USA website, listed as "supplemental manuals".

http://festoolusa.com/service/manuals/

 

[gkaiseril]

Thank you.

When I get a new tool I print and bind them and then place the copy in with the tool.

For those that are not aware of it, you can open the bookmark panel and have a visible table of contents. Just click on the page with bookmark on the far left of the page.

And the opened bookmarks:

A suggestion when revised, one can set the initial view of the PDF to open and show the pages and bookmarks. Rick Christophersnon could also add his name as the author. Festool can also add their copyright notice.

 

[Administrator_JSVN]

Rick Christophersnon could also add his name as the author.

Festool USA contracts Rick to produce these manuals.

 

[Rick Christopherson]

A suggestion when revised, one can set the initial view of the PDF to open and show the pages and bookmarks.

NEVER, ever, ever!!  [big grin] [big grin] This is a major rule of mine, that I will not override a person's own viewing preferences for their own software. I absolutely despise it when another author does this to me. So I will never do it to anyone else. All of my PDFs are created to utilize your preferences, not mine.

Every person has their own viewing preferences, but Adobe Acrobat is about the only software in the world that will allow the author to override this on someone else's computer (most times by accident from the author). Because I run dual large monitors, my default viewing preferences are Continuous Facing pages with a separate cover page and no bookmarks. However, someone with a small monitor may prefer single, non-continuous with bookmarks. It can be very irritating to open a PDF and find that the author has overridden your own preferences. So I specifically make sure that all of these settings are left at user-defaults.

By the way, if you haven't done so already, you can set your own viewing preferences under the Edit/Preferences menu listing. You can tell Acrobat what your preferred initial view should be. If you want to set this for a specific document, then use the File/Properties/Initial view menu item.

Rick Christopherson could also add his name as the author.

There is this huge unwritten rule in the technical publications industry that an author never, ever, ever, takes credits in manuals.  [big grin] Because the original ATF55E manual I wrote 10 years ago wasn't a typical for-hire document, I deliberately added credits to it to see if Christian Oltzscher would squash it. Because he didn't squash it, my name is now default credited in every Festool manual, document, and project plan I create. (Shame on me!!!  [scared]) It's printed on the legal page for all manuals and in the margins for training documents.  [big grin] [big grin] [big grin]

As Shane pointed out, these are Festool documents, and Festool is listed as the copyright holder in each manual.

 

[grbmds]

Anyway, Rick, your manuals are great. They really help me when I have a question which turns out not to have an obvious answer for me at least. They are clear and explain things. I think your products are great also. I haven't yet taken the step to buy either the SCG or MGS but will most likely get the SCG at least for some upcoming projects. It just seems to make things easier.

Thanks. Not everyone can write manuals as most of can see by what's out there. You can.

 

[GPowers]

A lot of us would be lost with our these manuals.  Thanks

 

[gkaiseril]

A suggestion when revised, one can set the initial view of the PDF to open and show the pages and bookmarks.

NEVER, ever, ever!!  [big grin] [big grin] This is a major rule of mine, that I will not override a person's own viewing preferences for their own software. I absolutely despise it when another author does this to me. So I will never do it to anyone else. All of my PDFs are created to utilize your preferences, not mine.

The display of navigation pane has never been a preference setting in Acrobat. So there is no overriding of any user preference.

Setting the 'Initial" view is a property of the PDF not the user's application.

The user's preferences were designed to be used when there was not an initial view set for the PDF.

As Shane pointed out, these are Festool documents, and Festool is listed as the copyright holder in each manual.

There is also and electronic copyright and author field in the metadata for the PDF that can be filled in.

If Festool has the exclusive copyright, it might not be appropriate to post the manuals on the author's site.

 

[David Fox]

I have seen reference in FOG to a LR32 supplemental manual. I cannot find it on the Festool site or on Ricks excellent supplemental manuals list. ANy idea where I could see this and DL it?

 

[Rick Christopherson]

I have seen reference in FOG to a LR32 supplemental manual. I cannot find it on the Festool site or on Ricks excellent supplemental manuals list. ANy idea where I could see this and DL it?

No, I have not been commissioned to do one of those.

 

[peter halle]

Festool USA does have what they call a Supplemental Manual for the LR-32 on their website.  It wasn't written by Rick.  If you go to this page and scroll down quite a ways you will find it:  https://www.festoolusa.com/service/owners-manuals#DOMINOJoiners

Peter

 

[Naildrivingman]

Are the supplemental manuals for North American users only?  If so, what is (are) the reason(s) for this?

 

[peter halle]

The Supplemental Manuals are for everyone's use.  Festool USA commissioned Rick to produce the manuals in years past for some of the tools available here in the US.

Peter