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Re: Levels of detail -- are we beyond this? (take II)
Subject:Re: Levels of detail -- are we beyond this? (take II) From:Evelyn Lee Barney <evbarney -at- comcast -dot- net> To:Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca> Date:Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:51:47 -0400
Aww now Geoff - i wasn't gonna name names - but YES - darn it all. they
are the worst offenders of this kind I'm familiar with.
Ev
Geoff Hart wrote:
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> Did anyone say "Adobe"? <g> I'm hardly what you'd call naive about
> computers, and I use some parts of Creative Suite heavily and other
> parts erratically, but I often run into precisely this kind of
> instruction, and have to dig deeper into the online help (sometimes a
> really deep dig) to find out just what the heck they're talking about,
> by which time I've half-forgotten the original question that sent me
> to the documentation.
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