Re: Estimating a Project - A real lulu

["Brierley, Sean" <Brierley -at- QUODATA -dot- COM>]

Hallo:

If youwork eight, twelve-hour days, I'd expect you can get it done, even in
Word. However, there is no time for questions, no real time to recapture
bitmaps, and no time for a review of the work, preliminary or otherwise.

Also, by "get it to the printer," what do you mean? Are you providing
camera-ready copy for offset press or a PS print file? Bear in mind that the
Word doc  you produce on your system may change a little on another system
with a different printer . . . meaning pagination and page breaks might be
off. Also, in my experience printing services schedule their jobs reasonably
in advance, meaning that I wouldn't expect a any printing company to take
your job on one-week's notice, especially Word output and especially since
an exact page count cannot be given.

Hey . . . why not do it in FrameMaker, provide the client RTF output and a
PS file for the printer? If they are only going to use the printed output,
why do they care on the format used for creation? You could even slap
together a PDF for online distribution, for a nominal fee, of course.

Anyway, 8, 12-hour days, using only the copy provided, no questions, no
reviews no review copies, yes. It can be done. Make sure you charge
accordingly.

All the best,

Sean
sean -at- quodata -dot- com

>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: temoore -at- BELLSOUTH -dot- NET [mailto:temoore -at- BELLSOUTH -dot- NET]
>>>Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 3:32 PM
>>>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>>>Subject: Estimating a Project - A real lulu
>>>
>>>
>>>I had a client contact me yesterday to discuss doing a
>>>training manual.
>>>I have exactly 8 days to finish the manual and get it to the printer.
>>>Here are the details:
>>>
>>>Rough text will be provided in handwritten format that will
>>>need to be
>>>edited for consistency and grammar.
>>>12 chapters totalling an estimated 100 pages.
>>>120 screen shots provided in bitmap format.
>>>Import screen shots into document and add callouts explaining items
>>>contained on screen shot referencing instuctions.
>>>Word template provided.
>>>No index at this time.
>>>Document must be done in Word (this is not negotiable to my
>>>client, so
>>>please don't say Do it Framemaker!!!)
>>>

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