All in all, I wasted about an hour and a half, staring at a
computer screen, zooming, de-zooming, rotating and
printing individual bits of the schematics and layouts,
just to work out where a couple of supply rails had
disappeared to on the DSP board. If this had been a
proper Pioneer paper manual, the whole exercise
would have been trivial, taking perhaps 15 minutes total.
Who pays for this wasted time ?

The customer, unfortunately. Pioneer isn't going to.


Sorry lads. rant over ... :-)

But a valid rant.

An electronic manual should actually be easier to traverse than a paper
manual, because there are no restrictions on page size or color. A bus or
rail can have a distinctive color that makes it easy to trace.