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by Mike McNamee Published
Getting Down to Business
Full testing of a suite such as CorelDRAW requires every aspect of its facilities to be tested. This is impossible in the timescales involved, although we resolutely avoid some of the pitfalls that our rivals fall into, simply re-writing the press brief! The opportunity arose following discussions with Tom Lee, to have a crack at redesigning literature for his new training course. After the first, very successful, course Tom was anxious to update the literature to reflect the work done by the delegates and to utilise the 'shoot the shoot' images taken during the course at the delightful Inglewood Manor (and what a location that is - we coined the strap line '8 acres of Portrait Paradise'!). We started from scratch to build a six-page brochure for web delivery, with an option to take the front and back pages to make a flyer for possible offset litho output. It was to be an all-pdf output at different resolutions.
The materials Tom supplied were typical of this class of job and included:
1. A Word document of the essential narrative, listings, dates, locations, telephone numbers, web addresses, post codes, etc.
2. A map.
3. A trio of logos.
4. JPEG Files.
5. RAW files from various sources and cameras.
The complete document was to consist of the following:
1. An attractive, eye-catching cover using an image shot by one of thedelegates.
2. A description of the location, including photographs.
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