{"id":88,"date":"2005-09-05T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-05T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2005-09-05T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-05T11:15:00","slug":"tech-writer-or-dtp-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/tech-writer-or-dtp-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech writer or DTP Expert?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw these requirements for a technical writer opening on one of those \u2018Urgent-wanted tech writers\u2019 mails:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HTML programming, Javascript<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft Office suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), Microsoft FrontPage<\/li>\n<li>Macromedia Dreamweaver<\/li>\n<li>Macromedia Flash<\/li>\n<li>Adobe Photoshop, Adobe ImageReady, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Acrobat, <\/li>\n<li>RoboHelp<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft Visio<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I wonder why they left out C, C++, Java, and VisualBasic? Why, why? When will they learn to tell a writer from a DTP professional? What has Flash got to do with a tech writer\u2019s job? 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Why, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[195],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"jetpack-portfolio-admin-thumb":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Suman Kumar","author_link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/author\/suman-kumar\/"},"uagb_comment_info":5,"uagb_excerpt":"I saw these requirements for a technical writer opening on one of those \u2018Urgent-wanted tech writers\u2019 mails: HTML programming, Javascript Microsoft Office suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), Microsoft FrontPage Macromedia Dreamweaver Macromedia Flash Adobe Photoshop, Adobe ImageReady, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Acrobat, RoboHelp Microsoft Visio I wonder why they left out C, C++, Java, and VisualBasic? 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