Re: inDesign2
Re: inDesign2
- Subject: Re: inDesign2
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 17:38:14 +0200
On torsdag, maj 1, 2003, at 15:51 Europe/Copenhagen, email@hidden
wrote:
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I will admit that my passion for InDesign comes from more than its ICC
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capabilities and Photoshop-like screen preview; those old familiar GX
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capabilities are part of it too...
GX was an answer to two sets of related problems a decade before the
user community realized they were problems in the first place:
(1) Simplistic Occidental typesetting is OK with a composing case of
256 glyphs as conceived in 1984, but Oriental typesetting was not OK
with 250 glyphs in 1600 and remained unhappy with the hot set and cold
set flavours until PSL2 and WorldScript began the process of providing
a digital solution.
(2) National movie production turned color by 1960, national TV turned
color by 1980, and the Mac was the first platform where type and images
could be assembled into documents. Assembled into documents using
lowrez proxies, screenfonts and FPOs to be sure, but GX had an answer
to that, too.
Type 1 libraries were still a live commodity, centralized color capture
was still a live workflow, and until 2000 even the largest magazines in
Euroland still assembled editions using tiny Macs with 256 color
monitors and XPress feeding off 50 Mb RAM.
The point is that the page design community has a much longer route to
travel to device independence than the photographic design community
ever had, and a much more complex one as the page design community is
based on PostScript and PDF by definition.
Henrik
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