Re: Doing your own graphics (an illustrators perspective)

[David Blyth <dblyth -at- QUALCOMM -dot- COM>]

Michael Maloney comments that....

>Technical writing (prepared by a professional writer) should be edited by an
>editor, place into a document designed by a publishing specialist and should
>be accompanied by professionally produced technical illustrations.

Ideally, you probably also want to have the document indexed by a professional
indexer, the formatting done by a professional DTP, the organization analyzed
by a committee, the fonts chosen by city newspaper editors, the paper approved
by Xerox, the Department of Forestry and Greenpeace, and the binding carefully
examined by the Marshalls who run chain gangs (to keep the pieces together).

But for most of us Tech Writers, the sum of the whole is greater than the
sum of its parts. And we don't have unlimited budgets.


David (The Man) Blyth
Technical Writer & Web Site Designer
Qualcomm

The usual disclaimers apply - I don't speak for QUALCOMM, they don't speak
for me....

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