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

["Dmitri Yunov" <yudmi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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