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Subject:RE: A cautionary tale: Portfolio Assessment From:KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 22 Jan 2002 14:01:08 -0500
Whirlistas,
Is it a common practice to include in your documents
(somewhere in frontmatter, I assume) what tools were
used?
Just about the only place I really expect to see such
info is in books about typesetting and layout, and
manuals for layout and publishing tools.
Is there any reason to include such info in a hardware
or software install guide?
/kevin
John Posada [mailto:jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com] was heard to intone:
> A portfolio is not eveluated in a
> vacuum, but with the conditions under which it was created. I want to
> be able to answer the following question:
>
> "Gee...this piece doesn't seem as polished as some of the others. I
> notice it was done in Frame...it must mean that you have limited
> experience in Frame?."
>
> With the answer, "No...what you see is is a 30 page user guide that
> was created in 24 hours
[snip]
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