Online Versus Print (cont.)The Right Application for the Job
Choosing the right application to achieve a task is critical to developing a good document. In the next few pages we will briefly describe the kinds of applications available to developers and which of them should be used for which tasks.
Most applications are designed with a particular purpose in mind. Microsoft Word for example is a word processing application. It's primary purpose is to allow the user to prepare words for presentation.
Many applications give you the tools to do tasks that "stretch" the capabilities of the application, often way too far. For example, you have probably noticed that Microsoft Word will allow you to make diagrams and draw pictures. But you may also have noticed that the resulting pictures are not good quality and are often hard to edit or manipulate.
Using Word to draw a picture is like using a screwdriver to dig a hole. The drawing tools in a word processing program should be used only in a limited fashion.
We will be giving a brief overview of the following kinds of applications, what kind of tasks these applications are designed to accomplish, and how these applications can be misused.
