Re: Pshop 6 softproofs
Re: Pshop 6 softproofs
- Subject: Re: Pshop 6 softproofs
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 08:34:45 +0100
Chris Cox <email@hidden> wrote:
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That could be because x148 is from August 2, and the final version
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was released in mid October.
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You're MANY builds and bugs behind the release version.
I thought as much and left that bug out. Meanwhile let me also say that
Adobe has a history of strange strategies which impact technical education:
a. In the expansion phase Adobe appointed seven (7) distributors in
Denmark, which has a population of five (5) million. The predictable result
was that if the software didn't inform all by its little lonesome self,
nobody cared.
b. The strategy then changed to single national subsidiaries, which didn't
make the technical education interface any easier, but it was still doable
via Stockholm where you could count on a reliable bird's eye view and
interfacing to the US, if and when necessary.
c. The strategy then changed to no presence at all, except via national
advertising agencies. You folks can't be serious - advertising agencies!!?
I mean, this is just as bad as Apple's letting publishing resource
management drift with the wind and the waves. And the best of it all is
that national advertising agencies don't care about international
publishing, so the Adobe structure conflicts with the way Adobe
technologies enable non-national publishing workflows.
Adobe's problem is not only that its application architectures are very
complex, and its application platforms only loosely integrated (Illustrator
never did CIEBased, Photoshop always did, PDF 1.3 uses a workaround tagging
mechanism for color smart raster and color dumb vector objects, and so
forth), but also that it's down to advertising agency contacts.
OK, I know this is not the doing of the developer side. Developers will
explain and enlarge on the decisions behind their implementations rather
than turn on the hype (well, only a little -:)). But beware of marcoms,
advertisers, consultants, and whatnots.
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