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Aviatik,
* *Being ax ex Aerospace Engineer, I tend to agree with you. *However, for proposals, where the page count is strictly limited, then I must take exception. * Although, I suspect, that many of those went unread also!! * * R.
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well this sounds familiar.
I've worked in an in-house pubs department for:
Goodrich/Raytheon/Hughes Aerospace/Perkin-Elmer for 20 yrs now. I've worked on all kinds of props, some for NASA, I think we even worked with Boeing once or twice.
And it's always the same story - Cram as much as you can and white space be damned. Thank God the RFPs usualy have page limits AND minimum font size requirements.
But if they find a loophole your in for trouble.
A couple times the RFP forgot to spec minimum font sizes for the illustrations - so the engineers decided to jam as much data as they could into the figures.
what a nightmare :
Even so - I still like working with engineers *
Mark