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Subject:Re: Concept - Task ratio From:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:41:13 -0800
To understand our model range, imagine if Adobe's lowest-end Acrobat
was a $9.95 pdfmaker that offered the user options like "low/med/high
quality" and no other user-adjustable settings. The help for this
product would be rather different from the help for $450 Acrobat Pro.
Gene Kim-Eng
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Mike Starr <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com> wrote:
> Well okay, here are a couple real-world examples. I can write a very simple how procedure to tell someone how to print to PDF using the Acrobat Professional *Adobe PDF* printer. But at some point, some users are going to need/want more and when they encounter the image settings for the printer driver, they'll need to know why they might choose one *Downsample* option over another or why they might choose one *Compression* option over another (see http://www.writestarr.com/AdobePDFSettings.png).
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