BatSH*T crazy client
aitchmal0ne (220 pencils) | Thu, 2011-06-02 14:27Wants me to make my InDesign document, which mind you is a three HUNDRED page textbook, into a word document now so she can proofread it better. Any ideas people?!?!?!? I've been sending her PDFS.
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::heather malone
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http://creativetechs.com/tipsblog/convert-indesign-file-to-microsoft-word/
Hope this helps, there's a link to a PDF converter, some of the work is going to have to come from her side as well. I'm not sure* but you may have to convert the fonts to something generic that she'll definitely have for display/ editing purposes. This is probably the shortest route I've found so far- keeps her happy and you.
This is where I tell them how much extra that's going to cost. If it wasn't in the original quote - it's billable hours imho.
I'm with Art D. Rector. Yeah... we can do it, but it's going to cost you.
Sounds like a matter of an uneducated client to me. Give 'em some understanding.
Terrell Thornhill
e-zign Design Group
You have no copy of the text in word what-so-ever? You had to at least begin a rough draft in Word, right? I mean if the project is primarily text.
-A.B.
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if they're "proofing," it shouldn't matter what format.
if they're "editing," that's a different issue. and it means the content got into the layout before it was completed. that's a bad thing.
Excellent point. And who's going to proof it again after you put it back into the final layout?
I agree with Art, send her a quote on the revised billable hours. We're constantly going through those scenarios with editing...... :)
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