Re: I hate RIPs
Re: I hate RIPs
- Subject: Re: I hate RIPs
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 07:48:29 +0100
Nick Wheeler <email@hidden> wrote:
Epsons just want to have QuickDraw.
The dual printing pipeline problem goes all the way back to the
original ImageWriter which used the OS pipeline and the LaserWriter
with its PostScript controller which used the application pipeline
(from Pshop, PaceMaker, XPress etc).
If Apple had not taken so darn long to get QuickDraw GX on the
street, then Adobe and Quark API business models wouldn't have been
so far progressed that OpenDoc was a threat, and GX would have been
less of a threat to Type 1 and to some extent to PostScript, then
both companies might have been more inclined to port their
application software, and we would have had a device independent OS
engine in System 7.5.
GX had an approach similar to PDF and a format that competed with
PDF. You spooled pages to disk, creating page objects ready to be
handled individually (: page independence) which is not possible with
PostScript. And all fonts, all images etc were part of the page as in
PDF, too. The object-oriented format was called Portable Digital
Document (PDD) and had its own icon -:).
Why does this matter? It matters because it was clear a very long
time ago that the world of OPI was rapidly waning. Nobody wants to
work like we did fifteen years ago: Photographers do photographs and
layouters do layout and ne'er shall the twain workflows meet except
through the CEPS scanner and OPI system in the service bureau.
There is money in RGB retouching and no money in CMYK scan for print
(: direct to CMYK). There is money in integrating images and layout
directly in PDF and no money in handing around native application
Quark files. Anybody can do that, and everybody has been doing that
for a decade and a half. The photographer and the layouter today form
a workgroup and the service bureau either joins the content workgroup
at agency level or joins the printing company.
So whatever we may feel about RIPs and their arrival in quantity in
the world of content creation, without them we can't color manage the
integrated PDF page designs which will increasingly be putting bread
on our tables. Trying to color manage isolated loose images on a
non-PostScript system is not the way ahead.
But this discussion is about as old as the List -:).
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