InDesign and Word are very latecomers to this realm. Ventura and FrameMaker are both full-featured in tyographic finery and complex equation editing. Neither enjoy much market share, but Word will never match their intricate handling of long, technical documents.
You are absolutely right, and business will always find a way to use whatever communication channels are available to get their message out. It has become quite a task.
I agree with the comment on the service Knowem.com that, in addition to registering your name on 120 accounts, it ought to offer a way to update all of these sites from a single repository of your information.
Onward Internet! Onward innovators! What a ride!
Turn off your second monitor and time yourself doing a series of normal, everyday tasks for about 15 minutes. Then turn the monitor back on and time the same tasks (be sure they are often repeated tasks). They might take you 12 minutes to do. Take the seconds or minutes you save, and multiply them by the number of 15-minute segments you spend actually on your computer in your wrokday. (e.g., 8-hour day, maybe 5 hours on the computer, 4*5=20 15-minute segments of screen time. 20*3(minutes saved)=60. You save an hour of time for every 5 hours you are on your computer. Extrapolate that for a month 20 (workdays)*1 hour= 20 hours saved a month. Multiply 20 time your hourly rate (e.g., $50*20=$1000 per month saved). That is the way business thinks. Try it.
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InDesign and Word are very latecomers to this realm. Ventura and FrameMaker are both full-featured in tyographic finery and complex equation editing. Neither enjoy much market share, but Word will never match their intricate handling of long, technical documents.
You are absolutely right, and business will always find a way to use whatever communication channels are available to get their message out. It has become quite a task. I agree with the comment on the service Knowem.com that, in addition to registering your name on 120 accounts, it ought to offer a way to update all of these sites from a single repository of your information. Onward Internet! Onward innovators! What a ride!
Hey, I'll bet he has enough income to afford both a Mac and a PC as well as an iPod and a Zune!
Look into FrameMaker from Adobe.
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Turn off your second monitor and time yourself doing a series of normal, everyday tasks for about 15 minutes. Then turn the monitor back on and time the same tasks (be sure they are often repeated tasks). They might take you 12 minutes to do. Take the seconds or minutes you save, and multiply them by the number of 15-minute segments you spend actually on your computer in your wrokday. (e.g., 8-hour day, maybe 5 hours on the computer, 4*5=20 15-minute segments of screen time. 20*3(minutes saved)=60. You save an hour of time for every 5 hours you are on your computer. Extrapolate that for a month 20 (workdays)*1 hour= 20 hours saved a month. Multiply 20 time your hourly rate (e.g., $50*20=$1000 per month saved). That is the way business thinks. Try it.
Good luck-
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