Minor typos and the QA guy/scrummaster

[Marguerite Krupp]

Your "expert" can already edit your docs in pdf if he has the full Adobe Acrobat Pro Extended. Or even with Reader if you enable commenting in your pdf. The tools are pretty good. Maybe he just needs some education in how to use them.


The real issue is whether you want to allow others to make changes to your document. If they can make changes, those changes should be identified by content, date, and author, so you have some traceback. Otherwise, you'll have to run pdf comparisons all over the place.

My pet peeve in this regard is "experts" who have their own pet ways of spelling certain words, and anything else, even standard English usage, is a "typo." I worked for one guy once whose wife was an editor, and he insisted that I insert double spaces after the period at the end of every sentence. Anything else, he insisted, was a "typo."

FWIW,
Marguerite



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 From: Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com>
To: jackdeland at comcast.net 
Cc: framers <framers at lists.frameusers.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: Minor typos and the QA guy/scrummaster
 
To be fair, you CAN save it elsewhere, and it's probable that you can
set the options to a different default.

But Microsoft making their cloud the default out of the box kinda worries me.

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:06 AM,  <jackdeland at comcast.net> wrote:
> I think #2 would be the most convincing for him. We are big on security.
>
> Jack
>
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 8:42:01 AM
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> Subject: Re: Minor typos and the QA guy/scrummaster
>
> Well, let's see, off the top of my head:
>
> 1. Word2013 isn't available yet, so it's going to be hard for your
> developers to make use of it anytime soon. Not only that, but
> according to one article, it won't work on any OS prior to Windows 7.
>
> 2. From the article I saw on PCWorld, when it IS available, you've got
> the issue with it defaulting to saving out to Microsoft's
> Skydrive--does your scrum master, much less your company, really want
> to put its IP out in the cloud? Particularly a cloud they don't
> control? I've seen no mention (so far, but admittedly I haven't been
> looking) that Microsoft has addressed the corporate customer's need
> for security and IP control and the likelihood that they'll want to
> keep things on their own storage network.
>
> 3. Tell him you'll let him and his developers edit your source when he
> lets you edit theirs. ;-)
>
> 4. Point out to him that each profession has specialized tools to make
> things easier and more efficient, and ask him if he thinks correcting
> some minor typos is worth handicapping you. Tell him that his trying
> to get you to work in Word rather than Frame is like you telling him
> that his developers should all be working in Notepad rather than in an
> IDE.
>
> OK, #3 is a bit snarky, so unless you know him really well, I wouldn't
> try it. My bet is on #4, but I'm betting there are others on this list
> who can give you more cogent arguments.
>
> Good luck with it. (As an aside, what IS it with people who don't work
> as writers trying to tell writers what tools they should be using?)
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:58 AM,  <jackdeland at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Hello, Framers -
>>
>> My QA guy has a problem with chasing minor typos in our docs: it takes
>> longer to document the typo than it does to fix it. He wants a solution
>> that
>> bypasses the need for FrameMaker, and has read an article that says Word
>> 2013 will allow editing of PDFs in native format. He wants the developers
>> to
>> be able to do this to my docs.
>>
>>
>>
>> I’ve explained all the many problems with using Word, but he is still
>> searching for an answer, which means I am too.
>>
>>
>>
>> What is your solution to the problem he sees?  To me, it should be a
>> non-problem, i.e., typos should not exist anyway, and the developers
>> should
>> not be allowed anywhere near my “source”, but the reality is that he has
>> more say in it than I (he is also scrummaster).
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>> Jack DeLand
>>
>>
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