Re: Which Profile Editor?
Re: Which Profile Editor?
- Subject: Re: Which Profile Editor?
- From: Uli Zappe <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:36:31 +0200
Am 20.06.2007 um 23:12 schrieb Andrew Rodney:
Boy, my experiences are just the opposite. I can't work without the
Adobe
applications and I can't figure out how on earth the OS could be
any more
confusing at handling what Adobe does so well across their
applications.
Adobe actually advertises the level of consistency between its apps.
Whenever I read something like this, I hear the alarm bells ring,
because such a statement makes sense only if these apps ignore the
Mac OS X standards - if they would adhere to them, it would be a
trivial fact that they are consistent to each other (just as to all
other apps).
The same with any app that prides itself of running identically on
Windows and Mac: by definition, it cannot take advantage of operating
system specific features in this case.
I don't want this to become an Adobe bashing thing, so let me point
out just one thing:
There may be many graphics and publishing professionals who basically
do all their work within the Adobe apps. For them, consistency
between these apps is important, and they don't care about the rest -
in a way, it really doesn't matter to them if they work on Windows or
a Mac because actually they work in an "Adobe operating system". Of
course, Adobe apps are good choice for those users (at least if you
ignore the fact that they're locked into a monopoly).
But for the rest of us, who use many different apps, consistency
between these apps (from different vendors) is a must (and one reason
to use Mac OS X instead of Windows). I use about 100 apps on my Macs.
If e.g. Command-h wouldn't mean exactly the same in each of them, I'd
be lost; Adobe ignores the Command-h standard (at least last time I
checked). The second demand is that functionalities must be located
architectonically correct: e.g. if I work in a specific field and
must add specialist terms to my spelling dictionary, it is mandatory
that I need not do this more than once. With OS X and its system-wide
spelling directory, this is possible, but Adobe ignores the spelling
directory of Mac OS X. These are but two small examples for issues
that happen again and again with Adobe apps (and then, there's this
hideous licensing mechanism ...).
Bye
Uli
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