Re: CMYK or RGB? Macintosh or Windows? How's a poor guy to upgrade?

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, that is true!

        - Dov

At 10/17/2002 09:59 PM, Dmitri Yunov wrote:
>Dov, it seems it's a good time to remind that as a result of long evolution
>and reincarnation of DPS, most Adobe applications that use CoolType (former
>Bravo), are platform-independent for print-color-screen-font management and
>font implementation, isn't it?
>Designer should get the same result in Mac-UNIX-Wintel-WiAthlon.
>It's GoLive-Acrobat-PSH-AI-Premiere-InDesign-InCopy...
>
>Dm.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Dov Isaacs <isaacs@Adobe.COM>
>To: <quills@airmail.net>
>Cc: Framers List <framers@FrameUsers.com>; <framers@omsys.com>
>Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 8:45 AM
>Subject: Re: CMYK or RGB? Macintosh or Windows? How's a poor guy to upgrade?
>
>
>> Windows GDI may produce only RGB, but serious publishing programs
>> (such as those mentioned by Hedley in his initial post + the likes
>> of FreeHand, CorelDRAW, and Quark XPress) all output composite
>> CMYK and separations. The only problematic publishing programs
>> with regards to "missing" composite CMYK color are FrameMaker and
>> Microsoft Publisher. Hedley didn't have FrameMaker as a requirement.
>> Except for FrameMaker, this "RGB" thing just doesn't ring true!
>>
>>         - Dov
>>
>>
>> At 10/17/2002 09:22 PM, quills@airmail.net wrote:
>> >At 5:49 AM +0400 10/18/02, Dmitri Yunov wrote:
>> >><snip>
>> >>
>> >>InDesign 2 is OS X native and
>> >>> looks very nice on the Mac. Windows XP Profession is a very impressive
>OS
>> >>> (in my opinion), but the Mac is still a superior graphics platform,
>> >>> especially with InDesign/Illustrator/Photoshop family.
>> >>Agree, but I also know A LOT of designers and pre-press firms who make
>four
>> >>and more color HQ production on Wintel.
>> >>
>> >>Regards,
>> >>Dm
>> ></snip>
>> >
>> >True, but Windows only produces RGB color, which is luminescent, not CYMK
>which is reflective. You can work around the RGB problem, but it is still a
>problem, and makes you work around it. If you want to do print work, the
>more efficient and and reliable way to produce color is with a platform that
>outputs CYMK.
>> >
>> >You can program using Notepad, too. But why would anyone want to?
>> >
>> >Scott
>>
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