tech illustrators, was Re: How many pages...etc./R. Mateosian

[LaVonna Funkhouser <lffunkhouser -at- HALNET -dot- COM>]

Jack Shaw wrote in part:
>To wit: when was the last time you read anything on TECHWR-L from
>a tech. illustrator/graphic designer? Is there such a person in the
>business any more?

>In the area of free-hand graphic support and conceptual illustration,
>computimation hasn't done that much for technical communication, IMHO...
>the quality of PC paint/Corel Draw have a way to go to equal the good
>old days of even the simplest handdrawn graphic illustration and design.

>J. Shaw

My company employs graphic artists and technical illustrators.  Our
illustrations are fairly complex.  They used to be done by hand, but
now we scan the old handdrawn graphics to remake them in Corel Draw.
(IMHO, the electronic versions are usually superior to the handdrawn
versions, and the turnaround time is usually faster.)

It is hard to supply a handdrawn illustration on a CD!  :-)

Yes, very few tech. illustration questions come up on this list, and
very few tech. illustrators join STC (not that you asked, but that's
what I've noticed.)  They tend to discuss different issues, but that
doesn't mean that they don't exist.

LaVonna
  LaVonna F. Funkhouser           Immediate Past President, OK Chapter
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