Re: "Professional" Graphics Programs
by Freda Lockert <fredalockert(at)clara.co.uk>
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>In addition to Alan's cogent remarks, there's also the issue that
>the older, more
>expensive programs have worked out their quality and control bugs for the most
>part, for the area of graphic arts they were originally designed to support --
>print. (And one of the reasons they are more expensive is the makers have to
>recoup the years of development investment they put into the products.)
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And your printer/bureau will expect you to have dealt with the
differences beween the RGB and CMYK colour spaces on your colour
calibrated computer system, to know about process and spot colours
($$$), varnishes, colour trapping and registration, dot gain, half
tone screens, and quite a bit more. And of course you've checked with
them in advance that they have the fonts you've used in your
document, unless you have a properly generated PDF. And you have used
PostScript fonts haven't you ... <g>
Cheers.
Freda
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