Basically Quartz is the 2d imaging model used in OS X and is based off of the PDF. ANY application has the option to save documents out as a PDF.
Quartz is also not a GUI. The Aqua User Interface calls on Quartz to draw the GUI on screen. Any application that is Caronized or written in Cocoa can tap into the Quartz graphics engine.
Basically, Quartz is Display Postscript on steroids.
WANTED: Designer with 5 years experience in PaintShop Pro, Corel Draw 8, PowerPoint and Publisher. Ex.com marketing directors and receptionists highly encouraged to apply as we can't afford anyone else who's learned to use industry standard tools in a competent and professional way. Plus, we're really just not all that picky about the garbage we put out.
Worth every penny? Yeah, right. How many times have you used a Pantone color index? How many times have you had to make something that was primarily vector-based? Probably only a few times, if not never (unless you do desktop publishing or something). Basically, all I had to do was add an alpha channel to 11 32x48 Targa files. Then I had to resize all of them to 32x32 with anti-aliasing. I got Photoshop LE for $100, and guess which feature they left out of it? Right, channel editing. Therefore, I got full 6.0 JUST SO I COULD DO THE STINKING ALPHA CHANNELS!
Uh, well, first off, I use Photoshop for print, web, multimedia and video. I appreciate the fact that I can make masks in about 8 different ways depending on how I need to construct a document. I also use the Pantone Libraries almost daily.
Photoshop is large because it can do so much more than any other image editing app out there. And you know what, I use a great majority of the tools in the application. Photoshop is primarily a production, art and design tool used by people who do such things for a living on a daily basis; not the casual user who has to make the occasional Alpha channel for a Targa file.
Bloatware? My gawd! Are you insane?! Every feature that they add to the program has value beyond belief! Layer Folders. On screen text editing.Vector layers for output to PDF. Slicing. Jeez. These are things that my work day way more efficient and productive and therefore my clients are happier because they have to pay less for higher wuality work with a faster turn time.
Is this not of any value to you? Or do you somehow feel entitled to all of these features for free or a mere $100? And if, so, why?
If you can't see the inherent values of these features, you're definitely not a Photoshop power user, but merely a casual user who's dabbled his/her way to a certain level of competence.
Get off your high horse, man! Photoshop is WORTH every penny they charge for it!
Name ONE other program that can do even half as much as Photoshop for as wide a variety of media.
I pay for my copies of Photoshop and will continue to do so at upgrade prices from now on. Photoshop is my livelihood and Adobe deserves to make something off of that.
I've been using the app since v2.5 and the advances they make with each successive release are phenomenal. These new features that they put in require programmers and rather high paid ones at that. How do you propose that these people (who create the tools that I need to make my living) make their living if Adobe just starts giving away their crown jewels?
This is all simple economics and market/demographic positioning.
It's the same reason they stopped developing Photoshop for Unix. There aren't enough avid users of their publishing/image editing software out there in the *nix world to justify the expense of developing the ports.
It also cracks me up to hear people say that they have a freeware app that can do the same thing as FrameMaker or PageMaker or Photoshop or Illustrator or XPress or any number of other design/publishing programs. Granted, there are free tools of this sort for the *nix OS'es, but they're all 5+ years behind the commercially released versions for MacOS and Win9x.
The GIMP? Gimme a break! I'f I wanted to use a free version of Photoshop 2.5 I'd look in the free pile at a yard sale rather than use The GIMP! It's Photoshop lite for programmers, not people who are serious about image editing.
I'll stick with my MacOS versions of Illustrator 9, Photoshop 6, InDesign 1.5, Acrobat 4 and Quark XPress thank youverymuch.
Until usability and features become a part of the *nix mindset rather than availability of source code and the lack of a price, apps of this level of sophistication will never make serious inroads in this arena.
Designers, production artists and art directors care more about getting actual, quality work done than about the politics of open source software.
Adobe, Macromedia, BareBones and Quark all recognize this of their market demographic.
I would like to see the Linux community achieve victory on a fair and square basis, not by legal trickery.
Uh, I don't think the "Linux bunch" is behind the trial here. You could make a very tenuous point that this suit was brought against M$ by Netscape, AOL or Sun, but the fact is, the US Gov't had been eyeing M$ for some time and those companies just fueled their fire.
Oh give me a break!
The graphics market is never going to go away and graphic artists are never going to give up their Macs.
With Aqua under OS X, the mac graphics market is going to flourish like never before. On screen font rendering. "Save As PDF" from any application! No more cheesy, low rez, bitmapped screen captures.
Then there's the core BSD layer with all the fancy buzzwords like Prememptive Multitasking, Protected memory etc. etc. Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, Indesign, XPress and the rest are going to fly.
Keep your ill-informed doomsaying to yourself. The Mac may never overtake the AMD x86 market, but as long as Apple is posting healthy quarterly profits and maintain their overwhelming performance benefit in graphics they will be around for a long time.
Let's see here..... hmmmmm... the CEO of Apple making strategic business maneuvers to increase the acceptance, marketshare and sales of one or more of his company's products.
I don't have a Windows license because I have three Macs of varying ages and I'm about to install Yellow Dog on one of my more ancient PPC's so that it can be a rudimentary Apache server.
As a Mac user and a person who makes a living off of Photoshop, I'm not so much interested in the Mhz rating as I am in the Velocity Engine, and Motorola's in control of that. I just wish IBM and Motorola would get over their pesky little bickering and just make better chips.
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Basically Quartz is the 2d imaging model used in OS X and is based off of the PDF. ANY application has the option to save documents out as a PDF.
Quartz is also not a GUI. The Aqua User Interface calls on Quartz to draw the GUI on screen. Any application that is Caronized or written in Cocoa can tap into the Quartz graphics engine.
Basically, Quartz is Display Postscript on steroids.
PaintShop Pro?
Oh my! You have got to be kidding me!
I can just see the classified ad now:
WANTED: Designer with 5 years experience in PaintShop Pro, Corel Draw 8, PowerPoint and Publisher. Ex .com marketing directors and receptionists highly encouraged to apply as we can't afford anyone else who's learned to use industry standard tools in a competent and professional way. Plus, we're really just not all that picky about the garbage we put out.
Uh, well, first off, I use Photoshop for print, web, multimedia and video. I appreciate the fact that I can make masks in about 8 different ways depending on how I need to construct a document. I also use the Pantone Libraries almost daily.
Photoshop is large because it can do so much more than any other image editing app out there. And you know what, I use a great majority of the tools in the application. Photoshop is primarily a production, art and design tool used by people who do such things for a living on a daily basis; not the casual user who has to make the occasional Alpha channel for a Targa file.
Bloatware? My gawd! Are you insane?! Every feature that they add to the program has value beyond belief! Layer Folders. On screen text editing.Vector layers for output to PDF. Slicing. Jeez. These are things that my work day way more efficient and productive and therefore my clients are happier because they have to pay less for higher wuality work with a faster turn time.
Is this not of any value to you? Or do you somehow feel entitled to all of these features for free or a mere $100? And if, so, why?
If you can't see the inherent values of these features, you're definitely not a Photoshop power user, but merely a casual user who's dabbled his/her way to a certain level of competence.
Get off your high horse, man! Photoshop is WORTH every penny they charge for it!
Name ONE other program that can do even half as much as Photoshop for as wide a variety of media.
I pay for my copies of Photoshop and will continue to do so at upgrade prices from now on. Photoshop is my livelihood and Adobe deserves to make something off of that.
I've been using the app since v2.5 and the advances they make with each successive release are phenomenal. These new features that they put in require programmers and rather high paid ones at that. How do you propose that these people (who create the tools that I need to make my living) make their living if Adobe just starts giving away their crown jewels?
This is all simple economics and market/demographic positioning.
It's the same reason they stopped developing Photoshop for Unix. There aren't enough avid users of their publishing/image editing software out there in the *nix world to justify the expense of developing the ports.
It also cracks me up to hear people say that they have a freeware app that can do the same thing as FrameMaker or PageMaker or Photoshop or Illustrator or XPress or any number of other design/publishing programs. Granted, there are free tools of this sort for the *nix OS'es, but they're all 5+ years behind the commercially released versions for MacOS and Win9x.
The GIMP? Gimme a break! I'f I wanted to use a free version of Photoshop 2.5 I'd look in the free pile at a yard sale rather than use The GIMP! It's Photoshop lite for programmers, not people who are serious about image editing.
I'll stick with my MacOS versions of Illustrator 9, Photoshop 6, InDesign 1.5, Acrobat 4 and Quark XPress thank youverymuch.
Until usability and features become a part of the *nix mindset rather than availability of source code and the lack of a price, apps of this level of sophistication will never make serious inroads in this arena.
Designers, production artists and art directors care more about getting actual, quality work done than about the politics of open source software.
Adobe, Macromedia, BareBones and Quark all recognize this of their market demographic.
I would like to see the Linux community achieve victory on a fair and square basis, not by legal trickery.
Uh, I don't think the "Linux bunch" is behind the trial here. You could make a very tenuous point that this suit was brought against M$ by Netscape, AOL or Sun, but the fact is, the US Gov't had been eyeing M$ for some time and those companies just fueled their fire.Oh give me a break! The graphics market is never going to go away and graphic artists are never going to give up their Macs. With Aqua under OS X, the mac graphics market is going to flourish like never before. On screen font rendering. "Save As PDF" from any application! No more cheesy, low rez, bitmapped screen captures. Then there's the core BSD layer with all the fancy buzzwords like Prememptive Multitasking, Protected memory etc. etc. Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, Indesign, XPress and the rest are going to fly. Keep your ill-informed doomsaying to yourself. The Mac may never overtake the AMD x86 market, but as long as Apple is posting healthy quarterly profits and maintain their overwhelming performance benefit in graphics they will be around for a long time.
Let's see here..... hmmmmm... the CEO of Apple making strategic business maneuvers to increase the acceptance, marketshare and sales of one or more of his company's products.
Yup. Sounds like a conspiracy to me. Yup. Yup.
I've heard they've got OSX running on Alphas and have heard very faint rumors of them working on Crusoes.
I don't have a Windows license because I have three Macs of varying ages and I'm about to install Yellow Dog on one of my more ancient PPC's so that it can be a rudimentary Apache server.
As a Mac user and a person who makes a living off of Photoshop, I'm not so much interested in the Mhz rating as I am in the Velocity Engine, and Motorola's in control of that. I just wish IBM and Motorola would get over their pesky little bickering and just make better chips.
There's an old proverb; SAVE EARLY! SAVE OFTEN!
Then why don't some of you download it, reverse engineer it and make the source code available for free?