RE: Current trends in Authoring Tools?

["Lauren" <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu>]

Maybe the glazed over guy was wondering if you were familiar with Acrobat
Reader.  You know, like can you make a pdf?  Or explain one?

Lauren 

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> Behalf Of D. Michael McIntyre
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 5:45 PM
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> Subject: Re: Current trends in Authoring Tools?
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> On Thursday 08 February 2007 6:40 pm, Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
> > Just asking whether the guy meant Acrobat, FrameMaker, Illustrator, 
> > PhotoShop or a different program entirely would have immediately 
> > demonstrated that you knew more "Adobe" than he did.
> 
> That's exactly what I did do, and then I compared these 
> (except FrameMaker) to an open-source tool with which I was familiar.
> 
> I never got the glazed look to disappear from his eyes.
> 
> Maybe I sounded too desperate to convince him.
> 
> On the bright side, that company is now teetering on the 
> brink of extinction anyway.  (And they wouldn't be if they 
> had hired me, Instead Of That Putz Who Capitalized Every 
> Single Word For Some Stupid Reason.)
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