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Wow, you guys must have a lot of time and money to spare that you can afford
people who do only layout. With modern computers, the writer does layout
right with writing in Pagemaker or Frame and sort of in Word in every place
I've ever seen in almost 15 years.
I would make the case to my boss in terms of money. Getting rid of the
layout people in the process will result in significant savings in the
product process. Not as much time will be saved, because layout does take a
little time, even when you do it as you write, but schedules will be faster
as well.
sharon
Sharon Burton
CEO, Anthrobytes Consulting
951-369-8590
www.anthrobytes.com
President of IESTC
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And then Eric said:
The set up of our technical publication department does not allow me to do
my own layout. We currently use Quicksilver as our publishing software and
have three "composition" people do our layout. My work is done strictly in
Word or Excel which I hand off or email to the composition person for
layout. The normal life cycle of the document before the formal approval
process frequently consists of the following:
1. Hand off to composition.
2. Receive from composition (hard copy), mark up mistakes and hand off to
composition.
3. Receive from composition; correct mistakes again, make additional changes
as a result of SME input.
4. Receive from composition, correct changes made without my request,
frequently a cut and paste error only without the "paste".
5. Receive from composition, again, upon approval request to convert to PDF
(I don't have Adobe Acrobat) so that I can send to a committee for formal
approval.
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