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Re: The End Of Technical Writing (Was Something Else)
Subject:Re: The End Of Technical Writing (Was Something Else) From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:48:31 -0700
I think if everybody here had a licensed seat of the full Acrobat
the result would be a disaster, especially when some of the more
"independent thinkers" among the engineers discovered the text
touchup tool. :)
A $5000 Acrobat Distiller Server license will allow up to 100
concurrent users to PDF through a watched network folder ($50
per user, which is not bad, and when you consider that in a
company of 400 people worldwide the odds that more than 100
of them will be trying to PDF at any one time are pretty slim it
effectively works out to more like $12.50 per user). But our
experience here has been that for the 75% of the company not
in our US HQ building, trying to PDF across the WAN would
be like watching grass grow. It takes less time to attach a Word
file to an email, send it to me (or one of my writers) and get the
PDF back the same way.
> It sounded like these people already had licenses but needed help
> pushing buttons. I therefore thought a watched folder would be easier.
> I don't think this is wrong if everyone has a license, right?
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