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Adobe Forming a Linux Strategy?
rocketjam writes "According to cnet, Adobe Systems, the 800-pound gorilla of commercial graphics software is looking to become more involved with desktop Linux. The company has recently posted two new jobs, one for a director of Linux market development to 'identify and evaluate strategies for Adobe in the Linux and open-source desktop market', and one for a senior computer scientist who will 'become maintainer and/or architect for one or more Adobe-sponsored open-source projects.' Additionally, Adobe has joined the Open Source Development Labs and is active in the desktop Linux working group. A company spokesman said they are not currently looking to port any of their flagship products such as Photoshop to Linux yet, as they currently don't see sufficient numbers in the platform to make a good business case for it."
...for a while - witness their use of Tomcat and MySQL in GoLive as far back as 2002.
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The problem be that you have an inferior project. Why is not GIMP used professionally? At many companies the tech departments have heard of GIMP, but the design departments prefer Adobe Photoshop. Why? Simple quality issue. Nothing more. The GIMP must be the furthered develop before gained market share.
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The newest version of Acrobat Reader is not available for linux. Only the last version is.
The hard part is the color management. Linux/X is far behind on color management compared to MacOS and Windows.
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There is an adobe reader for linux. I just can't read Adobe E-books in Linux.
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adobe already checked out what's possible by using Trottlechs QT for their windows version of photoshop album. they made the design mistake to enable cleartype antialiasing - so the interface looks quite fuzzy - but the overall design is quite a success IMHO.
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Sorry, this is going to be highly redundant, but sadly I must weigh in on the side of those who say Photoshop STILL beats GIMP.
I am a graphics professional turned web guy, have used various versions of Photoshop on PC since 1995. Believe me, I really WANT to like GIMP. I've installed it on Windows and Linux over the years, and tried it....but I agree with those who say Photoshop still rules.
GIMP, as good as it is (and it has gotten MUCH better over the years) still feels like a knockoff. Photoshop feels much more intuitive, as it should, given the years Adobe has used fine-tuning their interface, which, incidently, they stick with on all of their graphics products. Part of the appeal (I'm guessing) with the Graphic Professionals is that ability to jump from app to app without a lot of re-learning of the user interface.
Type handling in Photoshop has always felt easier, which for someone making web graphics is a big deal.
Again, much as I love the idea of GIMP, I still shell out money for Photoshop. But your mileage may vary, and to each his own.
Web and video graphics are ALOT different from print media which is where Adobe shines.
If you're making a spread for a magazine, it _has_ to be in PDF/X-1a format which Gimp doesn't do.
Gimp is starting to get into color seperation with CMYK support but it isn't there yet.
Adobe Illustrator is the leader for SVG. The Linux alternatives aren't as good yet for print output. As far as usability and making a cute web graphic, sure Inkscape is fine.
Finally, Adobe InDesign is starting to replace the cumbersome Quark. There is NO layout tool for Linux for print. Again the support for PDF/X1-a goes without saying.
The only program I see that has support for PDF/X1-a on Linux is the libraries that come with PDFlib
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I agree with the Illustrator/Potoshop things but there is quite anice layout program for Linux called Scribus. Check it out. It does PDF/X-3 at least
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The hard part is the color management. Linux/X is far behind on color management compared to MacOS and Windows.
Agreed. But I wouldn't say it's so hard (from the developer viewpoint) the LittleCMS library is excellent and Free (as in speech and beer).
Rather, the problem is that there is just too little awareness and knowledge out there. A future desktop needs to have integrated color management.
Sure xpdf supports DRM. In fact, the author enables it & doesn't share how to disable it. Certain users have shared howand some linux distros ship xdf with a "nodrm" option so that you can not only view DRM content (as you can with vanilla xpdf), but you can print/copy/etc. what acroread or vanilla xpdf won't let you.
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It supports ENCRYPTION, not DRM.
Sites like http://drivethrurpg.com/catalog/index.php have content that XPDF can not view.
Most viable project that Adobe can open source is Postscript above all else.
How is postscript not open? Adobe provides full specifications available to anyone to implement it. Completely royalty free and without patent encumbrance.
Postscript is not a end product thus no real self threat
Wrong. Postscript is a product. Who makes the embedded PS systems for the millions of PS printers out there, eh?
it can however very much gain a large programmer pool and a good image.
It already has these things. Have you been living under a rock since 1985 when Postscript language specifications and reference manual (AKA 'the blue-book' and 'the red-book')
Their image currently is one of being very hostile towards the community.
In your mind perhaps.
Actually Quanta (included in KDE and included in pretty much any distribution) seems to fit your needs.