On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:40:45 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/13/07 06:17, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> Outside of high academia & the publishing industry, most people > >> don't care how ugly their printed documents look. > > I think there are an awful lot of us in business, non-profits, > > and government who'd contest this. > > I said "most". There are always exceptions. > > > Not to mention those in the advertising and marketing arena. > > They are publishers. > > > Larger organizations typically have fairly detailed standards for > > what documents have to look like, along with design departments, > > document templates, and so forth. > > And Word and OOo have templates. > Which is where a person who know what s/he is doing makes word/OOo behave like latex ;-) And they still have a tendency to mess things up (you set up a style for something that word decides to mess up the whole document). > > Smaller organizations - at least smart ones - spend a lot of time > > on making documents look good, because image and presentation > > make a big difference. > > DTP. It's what made the Mac. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFF0b/dS9HxQb37XmcRAvtpAJ9wifbJjrD0aYdgsrUVxGVK6cHDtgCfV2GM > vPsy3SSGvJTiMdr87h8emuU= > =eXq5 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
