Hate for copywriters...
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- itsmitch0
I've only had these problems when the client decides to be the copywriter themselves. A few months ago I had a corporate client do this and forced us to lay everything out in Microsoft Word for a project. At the beginning we were trying so hard to make it look great, even in Word, but by the end we just wanted it done with. We had multiple people sending us changes in multiple ways. Some people would send new Word documents that were marked up with changes. Some people just send the document and expected us to sort through it and find the changes with nothing pointing out where all the edits were made. Other people would send the changes as the text of an e-mail, sometimes with page numbers that didn't actually line up to where the changes were supposed to go. They were even overwriting each others changes and we were stuck in the middle of their office politics and egos. In the end, I recreated a 100+ page document, from scratch, 3 times. On top of that, I probably had 15-20 edits that broke flow and required me to adjust all the page breaks and graphics through the entire document. And, of course, it was a rush project with a limited budget. It's the kind of thing that makes you question you career path. Feel lucky you're working with an actual professional.
- fuck, that's harsh dude. i hate clients like thatscarabin
- ..sounds like a job for an svn, or even Google wave :)mikotondria3
- With these clients, we have no say how they get us the copy. They're too "special" (big corporate)itsmitch