8 or more ways to drive a graphic designer mad (classic)
Graphic designer solutions can help keep graphic designers sane. This classic bit of humor about graphic design was all over Twitter last week and in times past, and oh so true, “8 or more ways to drive a graphic designer mad.” The preflight issues mentioned are those that Markzware FlightCheck Pro v6.5 could solve for graphic designers. Even those with the latest program updates, such as for Adobe CS4 and Quark 8 projects, may be amused by their first example:
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When you have to send a graphic designer a document, make sure it’s made with a program from Microsoft Office. PC version if possible. If you have to send pictures, you’ll have more success in driving them mad if, instead of just sending a jpeg or a raw camera file, you embed the pictures inside a Microsoft Office document like Word or Powerpoint. Don’t forget to lower the resolution to 72 dpi so that they’ll have to contact you again for a higher quality version. When you send them the ‘higher’ version, make sure the size is at least 50% smaller. And if you’re using email to send the pictures, forget the attachment once in a while.”
Source: http://ghislainroy.com/blog/2007/03/06/8-ways-to-drive-a-graphic-designer-mad
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