Re: Article on Photoshop CS4 and DeviceLink profile
Re: Article on Photoshop CS4 and DeviceLink profile
- Subject: Re: Article on Photoshop CS4 and DeviceLink profile
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 23:52:13 +0000
On 2 Dec 2008, at 19:22, Chris Cox wrote:
Nothing was goofed up for device link profiles. The primary demand
for them was CMYK->CMYK (for print), and RGB->RGB (for non-print
folks). Adobe has a limited number of engineers, a limited number
of testers, and a limited amount of time to develop and test
features. Rather than delay support of device link profiles until
time became available to test every possible combination of input
and output color mode, Adobe focused on what was requested by the
users to solve real world problems.
Oh yeah...
18 months ago your *users* requested that you stopped ripping off
customers outside the US with the ludicrous prices that you charge for
the CS packages and upgrades.
18 months later you're still ripping us off.
And to add insult to injury we can see your co-worker crowing about
the huge profits that can be derived from the concept of the "suite":
" Revenue grew 70+% to $1Billion in 3 years, as customers adopted higher
priced suites. Meanwhile, profitability grew 35% as the Adobe was able
to
streamline development costs, reduce cost-of-goods and hold marketing
and
sales expenses flat."
(From Dave Burkett's LinkedIn profile -- <http://www.linkedin.com/in/dburkett
> )
Those sweetly profitable Suites *are* launched regular as clockwork
whether you've got a fully fledged array of new features or a half
completed hotch-potch -- like your new device link tools.
And I don't believe for one minute what you claim to be the "primary
demand" from your users.
Professionals doing CMYK to CMYK work already have access to software
that can do this sort of thing.
And 99.9% of your "non-print folks" have no idea that RGB to RGB
conversions can damage their images so would hardly be demanding
device link conversions.
RGB to CMYK conversions *would* offer significant benefit to your
users but you've failed to provide the features that would allow them
to realise these benefits.
Unlike the *author* who has made more of an effort and provided a
useful and interesting method of getting Photoshop to do this.
--
Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd
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