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> Behalf Of Al Geist
>
> Never, ever get rid of your originals, unless you want big
> headaches down
> the road. Keep them on a CD or DVD, but never keep them in
> the trash can.
I've had a few contracts where the original graphics were gone, the
applications were unavailable (to me at least) for new screenshots, and all
I had was an old document, sometimes just a pdf, with the graphics. Suffice
it to say, that image quality from taking a screen shot of a pdf is not
quite as clear as that from an original graphic.
Personally, I save everything and try to keep descriptive (but short)
filenames and folder names. I sometimes also prepare a document with a
folder contents list and store it in the root project folder. It's up to
the client to archive this properly, but my conscience is clean about what I
leave behind.
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