Re: Final Cut Pro 3
Re: Final Cut Pro 3
- Subject: Re: Final Cut Pro 3
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 08:22:31 +1100
On 6/12/01 4:34 AM +1000, John C. Welch, email@hidden, wrote:
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You think people use Quark as much as
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they do because they like the company? Or because Quark is known for being
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nice to the people who send it money? Not even close. AppleScript is the
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main reason.
Well, an important reason. Lack of serious competition also played a fairly
big role.
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InDesign is probably going to eclipse Quark in feature set, and
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lord knows, it'll beat Quark to Mac OS X. But unless you can set up a one -
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step script converter, the library of scripts written for Quark will give it
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a few more years of dominance.
You're ignoring the possibility that a future version of InDesign might also
clean up Quark in the area of scriptability. There's nothing like the
ability to do more with scripts to get people re-writing their old ones.
For all Quark's scripting prowess, it fails your "Just make *everything*
scriptable" test.
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden