Do we REALLY want an Adobe monopoly? - DavidRavenMoon

I absolutely agree.

I love Adobe stuff. Been using them since Photoshop 2.5 and Illustrator 88. I was never crazy about Pagemaker, I liked Quark much better.

Obviously everyone else did too. InDesign is great in its own way, and I use it more and more for my own work. But Quark is still a very good program. They are a little slow to implement some things, but at least they had a native OS X version first.

These are all tools. Right now I think they are in a race to see who can add more gimmicks. Do we need Quark to be able to generate web pages? I don't think so. But they have to keep up with InDesign.

Competition is a good thing. Look at what happened when Adobe bought Macromedia. A lot of people really loved Freehand, and I was a big fan of GoLive. Now I have to learn Dreamweaver. That sucks.

I guess this is progress.

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Friday, August 01 2008 @ 04:35 PM PDT

Do we REALLY want an Adobe monopoly? - A. Nony Mouse

I like transparency for creation but you can't RIP with it- no biggie. Just don't make the mistake of using EPS either. That will guarantee the crash- how many times we've had to hunt down embedded EPS' in documents because they were a cause for some alarm. At least in ID you can use native files like AI for those and not worry about problems until its time to output- any preflight will catch the transparency. Heck if you have a Xinet solution in place you can do it right the first time without having to go out the of way to replace all your artwork before collection.

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Friday, August 01 2008 @ 05:51 PM PDT