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Subject:RE: real tech writers? From:"Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:26:03 -0400
Tom Murrell <trmurrell -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>
>That doesn't mean I don't try my best a graphics, layout, design, and
>execution, but I recognize that I do a much poorer job than a competent
>Technical Artist (or whatever title is more appropriate) would do. I worked
>with one early in my career. She was a pain in the butt, but she was a
>competent Technical Artist.
>
I've worked with technical illustrators on a couple of occasions, and whatever they cost was well worth it. I probably have more experience with both graphic arts (layout, typography, printing technology) and with technical illustration than do the majority of tech writers; but the huge advantage a real illustrator brings to the job, aside from a deeper knowledge of that aspect of communication arts, is productivity. An illustrator can come back with a dozen good figures in the time it takes me to come up with two or three mediocre ones. It's a false economy to ask writers to do their own hardware drawings. (I have no problem with writers doing their own screen grabs for software manuals, however.)
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