Dec 04, 2011 22:00
LAUGH OF THE WEEK - One of the print projects I am working on is a 2012 Tax Guide for a legal accounting firm. I was forced to get a software upgrade and the new computer to run Creative Suite 5.5 to work on this project. Got the "You should upgrade your software, thank you for playing" error message in InDesign - saw that coming, yep.
Anyway, as is industry standard, I submit comps of the work in progress in PDF format, a standard and an effective workflow recognized throughout the publishing world. None the less, the first round was printed out, hand corrected, scanned, and FAXED back to the agency. So while the client that forced me to drop a CHUNK of cash on their project, are content to work with stone knifes and bearskins for their end of the work. My agency contact thought that was funny, but since then, corrections and revisions have come back in emails, word Docs, and even a few - thank the gods - annotated PDFs.
You can't make this stuff up.