Summary: Frame and prepress

["Mark Barratt" <markb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

First: success! Thanks to the many people on the list who suggested that it
is not impossible to do high-volume high-precision process imagesetting from
Frame.

I was able to rebut my printer's argument and get him to take the job
seriously. Result? Six hours later we have a successful route from
PostScript to in-RIP separated and imposed pages.

Second: it's clear from my experience and several of the messages that a lot
of users are having problems getting good colour results. Jason Aiken, for
example, asks: "What about the PC users? Given the fact that Frame on
Windows is a GDI (whatever that stands for) application which uses RGB
Postscript, has anyone produced successful color documents using Frame PS
and/or PDF and a high end RIP printer?"

There's a technology issue here. Let's hope Adobe is busy stitching its
lovely new imaging engine into Frame as we speak.

There's also a people issue, about Frame's low profile and the resulting
lack of confidence among prepress and print people. Quark and Aldus, I seem
to remember, ran energetic campaigns to win the support of prepress
professionals. They were mass-market applications, so it wouldn't be worth
it for Frame. But maybe Adobe could fund a semi-glossy 'FAQ' aimed at
prepress professionals?

In fact, a few marketing support publications about Frame in general
wouldn't go amiss...

Again, thanks to the list. A great place.
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Mark Barratt
Text Matters
   Information design: we help explain things using
   language, design, system and process improvement
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