Re: Mac vs PC platform
Re: Mac vs PC platform
- Subject: Re: Mac vs PC platform
- From: neil snape <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 22:09:17 +0100
on 3/02/04 21:29, David Meyers wrote :
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Do you know of a current artical, or study that
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supports my argument, that Macintosh is a better platform to work with,
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for graphic arts professionals and photographers?
I do think that Mr. Andreas Pfeiffer had a report of something like that on
creativepro.com
Here's his url just the same ;
http://www.pfeifferreport.com/
To be honest though considering that I use both PC and Mac, it's so easy to
see that OSX is a system level color management that is applied to all
structures of imaging from the simplest to the most complex.
PC use API calls for specific tasks and rely solely on the developers
understanding and application of techniques to arrive at an end that is
color managed leaving room for diversity and inconsistency between software
color rendering. Hit and miss, not at all sometimes on sometimes not seems
the daily color scheme on Windows platforms. The Adobe products , thank God
are consistent due to ACE across platforms, but the viewing portal
(monitors) are not necessarily controlled or calibrated in the same ways, in
particular multiple monitor set ups.
A monumental effort by the Colorsync team have created a system wide
architecture that we as user are only beginning to realise and reap the
benefits. (the documentation should be arriving any day now...)
Possibilities abound such as server based color local host color feeding
raster engines local or distant with the same color, etc etc. Even the built
in Quartz engine has some amazing powers to add hi end color processing to
even the most humble home users Mac.
Neil Snape nsnape @ noos.fr neil_snape @ mac.com
http://mapage.noos.fr/nsnape
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