Benefits: The Abaqus documentation installer now installs the PDF versions of all manuals in addition to the HTML online manuals.
Description: There are now several options for installing the documentation and making it available to your Abaqus users:
Install HTML and PDF on a server on your network, and use web server software to serve both formats to users (this is the most common choice).
Install multiple copies of the PDF files on individual users' machines, where they can view it locally using a PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Skip the documentation installer, and simply copy the PDF files from the DVD to any computers or disks.
The Abaqus PDF documentation is not meant as a replacement for the online HTML-format documentation. However, it has the following advantages:
Convenient portable reference.
Ability to print a range of pages, such as a section or chapter.
Higher quality printed output than that available from the HTML documentation.
Searchable alternative to the HTML documentation, particularly for situations where the HTML documentation is not searchable because it was installed with no web server.