Re: Current trends in Authoring Tools?

["D. Michael McIntyre" <michael -dot- mcintyre -at- rosegardenmusic -dot- com>]

On Thursday 08 February 2007 6:40 pm, Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
> Just asking whether the guy meant Acrobat, FrameMaker,
> Illustrator, PhotoShop or a different program entirely
> would have immediately demonstrated that you knew
> more "Adobe" than he did.

That's exactly what I did do, and then I compared these (except FrameMaker) to 
an open-source tool with which I was familiar.

I never got the glazed look to disappear from his eyes.

Maybe I sounded too desperate to convince him.

On the bright side, that company is now teetering on the brink of extinction 
anyway.  (And they wouldn't be if they had hired me, Instead Of That Putz Who 
Capitalized Every Single Word For Some Stupid Reason.)
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