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Subject:Re: Doing your own art From:Darryl Moody <dlmoody -at- INDYUNIX -dot- IUPUI -dot- EDU> Date:Sun, 3 Mar 1996 15:55:00 -0500
I am using Adobe Illustrator art files (they seem to be smaller in size than
Corel Draw files) and am merging this lineart with WordPerfect text
files. Combinding these in an electronic typesetting program (XYvision)
I can get down complete installation instructions to a Docutect system in
what seems to be the time line movement of a concept.
What I really want to get to is using video tape of an installation
(HVAC) - (could be anything) to use as a foundation for writing sequence
of events. As one begins to write from viewing a particular tape one could
stop periodically and pick a frame to use as an illustration, import that
digital siginal into Photoshop, do an Adobe Illustrator file,then go back
and forth between writing and imaging the remain sequence. Do you know
anyone working in this fashion?
