Re: Survey on illustration tools

[Bill Gruener <bill.gruener@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm a word person not a graphic person. I'm updating my skills and am in a
masters program in technical writing at Northeastern U, Boston, MA. I took a
graphics course in the program, and I tried to learn CorelDraw. I never
learned. I work some with Illustrator if I can't get our artist to do the
work. Although, I'm not an expert, not even adept, Illustrator is
understandable, and I can do simple tasks. I recommend Illustrator. Also,
the after-market documentation is better. The Illustrator for Dummies is
good. (I know what people say about the Dummies series, but those books work
for me, and I believe in whatever gets the job done.)

> From: larry.kollar@arrisi.com
> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:45:28 -0400
> To: Morton Dave Contr OO-ALC/LHM <Dave.Morton@HILL.af.mil>
> Cc: framers@FrameUsers.com, framers@omsys.com
> Subject: Re: Survey on illustration tools
> 
> David Morton wrote:
> 
>> We are looking at upgrading our illustration capability for use in
>> publications.  We are considering either CorelDraw or Illustrator. ...
> 
>> For those of you who do your own illustrations, what are your opinions
>> regarding illustration tools?
> 
> Illustrator is a popular choice among graphics professionals,
> including those who created a large body of legacy illustrations
> here. I know about enough to make minor changes to drawings
> already done in Illustrator, and that's about it. If we need an
> original, complex drawing, we'd have to bring in a contractor
> since I don't have much artistic talent beyond simple line
> drawings.
> 
> When I'm creating my own drawings, I either use Visual Thought
> on Windows or Dia on Linux. More often than not, though, we
> use digital photographs now.
> 
> --
> Larry Kollar, Senior Technical Writer, ARRIS
> "Content creators are the engine that drives
> value in the information life cycle."
> -- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc
> 
> 
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