Hey guys, Andre here - the creator of the 121 Manual/PDF Dave posted.
TLDR Version
Did in Indesign & Illustrator last year over a few months when I got my 121, got busy so couldn't finish, forgot about - remembered today, on whim exported to PDF and sent to Dave - he posted it to this thread!
Thanks for feedback - I am at the communities mercy. What I have done I consider owned by the EEVBlog community.
Didn't know other work was being done - silly of me not to check.
Slight interloper feelings.
Cheers & ill keep looking at this thread to see what you think.
Andre
Longer Version
Let me give you a little background to this silly incomplete version of the manual.
When I received delivery of my 121GW last year I, of course, wanted to take a look at the manual.
At that time it was the 24 Jan 2018.
Straight away I had a desire to re-do it so it could be as good as maybe a Keysight one.
OCD kicked in.
I didn't contact Dave, didn't look on the forum - I just started. Bit silly in hindsight.
So the front pic looked like an older version of the meter from when UEI and Dave were refining the design.
So I re-drew it in Illustrator and did it "properly, properly" - used a caliper to measure all dimensions & fonts etc.
I have all that as separate layered Illustrator/vector files.
Then I went through the manual and noticed the descriptions of each position/range etc wasn't 100% consistent.
So if you look through my version properly you will notice it's not just a re-styled version of the 24 Jan version, it a bit re-structured. The TOC gives you an idea of how its presents.
I tried to get the terms/language consistent - the rotary switch has 'Positions', containing 1 or more 'Modes'.
And I thought that 'Range' was to be reserved for actual auto/manual change of a range within a mode...
Studied the Keysight/Aglient manuals for U12XXX series a bit, since Ive got one of those.
Anyways, added the Positions and Modes pages 29-31 as a complete overview.
Came up with some new graphics and layouts, like on pages 42, 43, 44.
Also updated the inline button artwork, and the text itself in pages like 50.
So I worked on it for a few months, then got swamped with work, and have been ever since.
I almost forgot about it(!) but used my 121 yesterday and I remembered.
So just on a whim I exported to PDF and sent to Dave.
He got back to me really quick and said that he'd put it on the forum!
As you can tell, much is not finished.
I didn't write it from top to bottom, but was jumping around, so random bits are not done.
And I never did get up to the end sections.
Those large overlapping vector graphics in the TOC I forgot to resize - has to manually be done.
Yeah the text colour is too arty-farty - should be darker.
A5 is no problem....
But it looks like I have thrown a spanner the the works as you guys have been working on another updated version.
And of course people have ownership/are invested in work.
So I am totally open to whatever you guys say.
I can just leave it, or hand it over to other people - make all the vectors available etc.
Or I can redo it to match what you've got, or do a combination of both.
There's also the Illustrator/Indesign thing - so even though that's "Industry Standard" etc it matters not if you guys aren't happy with the format.
Whatever I have done so far belongs to the EEVBlog community.
Feel like a bit of an interloper since I didn't have enough sense to first check the community, and this has kinda just been chucked in the square.
Sorry that was a bit long winded.
Cheers & ill keep reading the posts here to see what ya think.
Andre