[Sigia-l] And then there's Inspiration

[Listera]

"Todd R.Warfel" wrote:

> I'm actually thinking about either switching to Freehand for this type
> of work, or a combination of Illustrator and InDesign/Quark. Currently,
> my process is to use Illustrator. Here's why I'm thinking of adjusting
> my workflow:
> 
> One of the reasons a lot of people are giving for using Visio is that
> you can copy/paste into Word and they send out a lot of their
> documentation as Word/PPT. That still means you have to copy paste.
> 
> Illustrator's biggest disadvantage for this type of work is that it
> doesn't support multiple pages. So, when you do Wireframes, it's a bit
> of a hassle to send them out as PDFs. You have to make a separate
> document for them. This is an advantage that Visio/Freehand have.
> 
> Now, on the other hand, you can save the pages out as EPS files, or
> PDFs individually, import those into InDesign/Quark, and build your
> first document. After that, every time you update the images, the
> ID/Quark document will automatically update them in that document. This
> saves a lot of time over the copy/paste method used between Visio and
> Word.
> 
> Additionally, if it's done in Freehand, it could save that whole
> initial build of the documentation, since it supports multiple pages.
> 
> I know a lot of people use it, but most of them aren't really sure why
> they do, other than "Other people use it."
> 
> Thoughts?

So Todd, you just can't spare 50 mins to learn the darn thing? :-)

Ziya
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