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

["Rick Quatro" <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hedley,

One thing that will help even the money issue is the fact that you can get
InDesign free with the purchase of a G4 Mac. 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.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
rick@frameexpert.com
http://www.frameexpert.com

> Keyboard tappers:
>
> My daughter's partner intends to leave the hospitality industry and change
> career to desktop publishing and multimedia.  He intends to buy a new
> computer for his studies and therein lies the problem: Macintosh or
> Windows?  From being in full employment with a steady income, he is about
> to become an impoverished student, so needs to spend his savings wisely on
> computer hardware.
>
> Macintosh does CMYK and Windows does RGB, so the unthinking decision would
> be to simply go for Macintosh.  Yet Macintosh hardware comparable to
> similar Windows hardware is so much more expensive (remember, we are on a
> budget here).
>
> So is anybody out there using the full panoply of Adobe graphic arts
> products (InDesign, PageMaker, Photoshop, Illustrator) to produce
> publications for PRINT on Windows, with high-quality, fully separable CMYK
> PDFs or camera art?  Is this possible?  Is this desirable?  Are the
> algorithms for converting Windows RGB to the CMYK for print sufficiently
> acceptable?  Which hardware should this man buy?
>
> I look forward to advice from the four-colour printing experts.
> Unfortunately, most of my work is B&W or two-colour, so I have no
> experience in this field.   By the way, I am no platform fanatic: at home
I
> have an elderly PowerMac 7300/200, at work a Gateway Windows PC, and have
> used probably twenty different operating systems in the last 20 years.
>
> [Windows 2000, FrameMaker 6.0p405, FrameScript 1.27C01, Enhance 2.03,
> Acrobat 4.05.2, mif2go 31u33, WebWorks Publisher 7.0, IXgen 5.5.h, HTML
> Help Workshop 4.74 build 8702.0, HTML Help 1.31]
>
> Regards,
> Hedley




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