7 replies to this topic

[janson_kaniaz]

I was thinking whether Crane publisher publishes the soft copy (pdf version) of Crane. It seems to me that it is sold only as hard copy. Anyone has any idea?

[latexman]

I think they have software (a program not .pdf) and/or hardcopy.

[janson_kaniaz]

It just seems odd to me that at the age we are in now, most of the handbooks/technical papers/standards are easily available in electronic format. and crane being of the most widely used reference makes it even harder for me to believe they don't publish it in e-format.

[JoeWong]

It just seems odd to me that at the age we are in now, most of the handbooks/technical papers/standards are easily available in electronic format. and crane being of the most widely used reference makes it even harder for me to believe they don't publish it in e-format.

Guess...part of the effort combat pirating activities...

[chemtan]

there are ppl who have converted Crane TP 410 to soft form.. mostly by scanning the hardcopy

[janson_kaniaz]

i actually have the scanned copy of it, i guess most companies have it, although it is illegal, but i find it hard to use, as compared to other handbooks/standards because of the fact that it's scanned. I cannot used the Search function in adobe reader to find the keyword. It is quite tedious if u know what I mean. The fact that it is scanned also makes it slower to scroll down.

[chemtan]

I agree, use of search command helps a lot.

But if u need to use it quite regularly then would help getting it printed in hard form. I think in most companies they have hard copies of this paper as it is very handy in engineer's day to day calculations.

[marthin_was]

Although I'm dealing with hydraulic calculation/simulation, I very rarelly used the crane hand book, I use pipephase / pipesys for all my simulation.