Is there a downloadable version of the Opus 10 manual?
It comes with Opus; push F1.
The version in the current 10.0.1.6 beta (from 2 days ago) is almost complete. You can download the beta version via the link in my signature.
The 100% complete manual (which was finished today) will be part of the 10.0.2.0 update (or the next beta, if there is another one before 10.0.2.0).
Hi,
I have the current beta version installed how can I print off the complete manual just like a PDF document. For me thats what I would perfer.
Cheers,
If you want to print it, wait for a PDF version to be made available. (You wouldn't want to print the 10.0.1.6 manual anyway, it's missing a few pages.)
I will wait for that version thank you.
We expect to have a PDF manual available online later today so have a look in 24hrs.
Greg
Don't forget the "permissions" thing.
It is some years since something went wrong and created a PDF that we couldn't annotate. So you, or your software, have probably forgotten how to do that again. But it is worth checking before the file goes up.
It helps to have a PDF file that people can bookmark and annotate as they see fit.
[quote="leo"]
The 100% complete manual (which was finished today) will be part of the 10.0.2.0 update (or the next beta, if there is another one before 10.0.2.0).[/quote]
Congrats, that must have been a load of work.
I'm looking forward to reading it start to finish.
Thx.
The Opus Reference manual PDF is now complete for Opus 10. We've just made this available online as an 8.68MB ZIP download. All 707 pages of it.
You can access it via Opus10 Reference Manual PDF as ZIP
Enjoy! 
Excellent. Looks nice. Not "locked down".
If only someone could find a way to make the index live, linking to the pages in question, it would be perfect.
This is working for me! Just place the mouse-cursor above the page number not the text.
This is working for me! Just place the mouse-cursor above the page number not the text.[/quote]
That works here in "Contents" but not in "Index".
Unfortunately, there is another minor problem. The references to page numbers in the index are not the same as the page numbers within the document. So, if you try to go to page 324 in the PDF treader you land on page 318.
I know it is a minor niggle, but it adds another couple of steps to getting where you want to be from the index.
On a more positive note, I have now added a link to the local copy in the DOpus Help menu. I often find the PDF file to be more useful than the Help file itself, partly because I can search through it with external indexing software.
The page numbers match the numbers printed at the bottom of the pages. The issue is that, as is standard with books and manuals, the cover and the table of contents are numbered separately (with roman numerals). "Page 1" is not the first page in the manual, but Adobe Reader (and presumably most PDF viewers) start counting from 1 anyway. It doesn't seem to understand the concept, even though it is so common. (Unless there's some flag that's missing on the document?)
Just one of the many joys of using a paper-based format for interactive viewing on a computer screen!
(Along with the combination of fixed, narrow-width page layouts and font sizes that never fit comfortably on a screen no matter which zoom level you choose; squashed, poorly re-compressed images; huge, space-wasting margins; page breaks, headers and footers splitting everything up every few sentences for reasons that don't make sense on a screen; a wide selection of viewing software almost all of which is terrible and riddled with bugs and security issues... Great for printing, though! Heh. 
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i've been an Acrobat expert all of my young life and there's no direct remedy to this old problem. with Acrobat Professional it's possible to renumber the PDF-pages so that those numbers (e.g. "i, ii, iii, iv, 1, 2, 3,...") coincide with the document page number (e.g. as sourced by M$ Word 2012: "i, ii, iii, iv, 1, 2, 3,...") but as soon as you try to jump to "PDF-page ii", the command isnt understood by Acrobat. Since automatic bookmarking doesnt exist anyway in Acrobat (in my 6.0 Professional version), nobody gains anything by equalizing the 2 page numbering couples (i = i, ii = ii, .., 1=1, 2=2, ..). the safest way not to let Acrobat misinterpret PDF-page numbers is by leaving the original numbers (1,2,3,4,5,6,7...) and linking (bookmarking) the indexed items with the corresponding PDF-page. My personal workaround is:
i leave Acrobat deinstalled and use Foxit Reader 3.0 (which is small and fast). When the index says "Zip Options 232", then i hit "Ctrl + ■■■■ + n" ("Ctrl + Shift + N") and enter (232+6=) "238" in the dialogue.
Voilá! 
What a massive effort. It looks great guys, many thanks.
Many thanks you for this huge work... 
Thanks for all your enthusiasm and comments. Unfortunately Acrobat takes a long time to convert the word document with full links and I wanted to get the initial version released by Friday night and get on with more important things like a nice bottle of Victorian Curley Flat 2007 Chardonnay! -
I have now updated the PDF manual to fix the issues from above with PDF page numbers as the page footer and the document now has live links from the index and other places.
There's an annoying issue with the garbage before the section text in the footer which acrobat seems to produce. But I will only accept complaints after you have read and learned by heart all 720 pages!
[quote="greg"]Victorian Curley Flat 2007 Chardonnay[/quote] Looks like I have to pop my head and get a bottle only down the road go for a nice country drive drink it then read the manual LOL....
BTW Great job on the manual guys....
Typo: Pg. 21:
The word "than" should be "that":
Opus 10 provides “native display” of some virtual folders than in Opus 9...
Thanks! I've corrected it for the next time the help/manual is compiled.