Most of the printing industry is in that same time hole then.
The consensus on the CTP Pressroom mailing list is that almost no one is accepting print-ready work in PDF format yet.
Lots of people are moving to using PDF/X1-a in their internal workflows, as are we, but the whole reason it was designed was to be a data interchange format, and that dream hasn't been fulfilled yet as far as I can tell.
Most people seem to still output postscript from native apps, then convert to PDF later too. Native app PDF output support doesn't seem to be there yet in many places.
And yes, ghostscript can read and write PDFs too. Pretty well in fact. No option yet to produce X1-a conformant output yet, but there's some talk. Of course it can read and render X1-a, as it is a subset of the full spec.
GEGL is just a pipe dream right now. If something happens like GEGL and it pushes gimp to a point where it can be considered a serious tool for prepress, I'll change my tune.
Or gimp can stay the way it is, and fill the niche for web designers and amature photography. It would be a shame to go this far and not go the rest of the way though.
Yeah that's what I should have said in my post. It's not so much that Gimp doesn't have a pantone library per se, but that even if they supported CMYK they still wouldn't have arbitrary spot color support.
A note of interest on this matter though, ghostscript can read, convert, and RIP PSD files now. Supporting up to 8 color channels IIRC.
Also, thanks to my company's investment in open technology, never versions of ghostscript have a "tiffsep" driver that can output tiff separations.
While gimp stagnates and leaves us prepress people in the cold, ghostscript and other tools like epstool and gsview (gsview/epstool supports DCS2 now, again, development funded by the company I work for) are really coming into their own in the prepress world.
What I'm saying is that some jobs wouldn't be done at all otherwise.
Take for instance the story on NPR of people working for $1 a day in India, sorting through garbage to pick out recyclables.
Obviously such work benefits the environment, and the worker.
If there were a $5 an hour minimum wage for these workers, no one would be able to do that job, it wouldn't ever be worth it. It's cheaper just to throw it all away and bury it under. The worker would have less job options, maybe being forced to crime to be able to eat.
These people are willing to work for $1 a day, and obviously they have no better job option, so who is the government to say they aren't allowed to work?
Those aren't "jobs that Americans won't take". Those are "jobs that companies won't pay Americans to do".
It's basic economics. If I can make $4 an hour revenue by hiring someone to do a certain job, I won't hire anyone to do that job, and the demand will stay unfilled, because it would cost me far more than $4/hour to hire someone.
This creates economic efficiency, because the job goes undone, the demand goes unfilled.
It doesn't matter if there is someone willing to do the job for $2 or $3 an hour, the government forbids us from making such a mutually beneficial transaction.
So the person willing and able to work stays unemployed, and my demand goes unfilled.
No one seemed to care when Blockbuster started giving very privacy invading hair strand drug tests. One of the only companies to do so. The problem with the test is that it shows any drug use in the last several months, which is none of Blockbuster's business!
Of course, I believe they are free to use this test if they want to, but the public was also free to stop patronizing such a privacy invading company, and they didn't.
Of course they would. Insurance is the art of handicapping, just like horse racing or any other form of betting. They are betting that you won't get seriously ill, and you are betting that you will.
The insurance company must make sure to always have the odds in their favor, to act otherwise is counter to what an insurance company is.
I'm not sure why people get the misconception that insurance companies are something they aren't. You are simply placing a bet, and the odds are for the house.
It's OK. Not great. The key is to set up a voice-mail only telephone number that is not attached to any land line. The telco can set this up with some runaround, not every person you talk to at the telco knows how to do it. It costs about $20 a month or so.
If you don't do this, prepare to be constantly bugged by people expecting free phone support.
One of the topics is why corporations don't use Macs.
We'd look kinda silly loading $3000 in software on a G4 mac mini that would barely run it, now wouldn't we?
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The truth isn't offtopic. When we need to buy a new Mac, it's a mjor production with lease options considered, capital budgets, etc. It costs about $5000 to buy a new mac once you add in all the prepress software you need.
A new Linux box on the other hand, it's a quick $500 and then it's over.
It's extremely common in the US. I generally have 4 or 5 things to shred with every credit card bill. Stupid "access checks", "special offers", "fraud protection insurance", etc.
Have you tried pointing a camera at a monitor displaying the camera's image in a darkish room, and putting it very close?
Eventually the hall of mirrors effect melts away to an amorphus blob of blue (not sure why it is blue, I'm sure there is a technical reason, probably based on CCD sensitivities), and small movements of the camera can control the spinning/morphing of the bright blob.
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Yes, Pantone must be licensed, which is why I said the liklihood of gimp getting it was miniscule!
Most of the printing industry is in that same time hole then.
The consensus on the CTP Pressroom mailing list is that almost no one is accepting print-ready work in PDF format yet.
Lots of people are moving to using PDF/X1-a in their internal workflows, as are we, but the whole reason it was designed was to be a data interchange format, and that dream hasn't been fulfilled yet as far as I can tell.
Most people seem to still output postscript from native apps, then convert to PDF later too. Native app PDF output support doesn't seem to be there yet in many places.
And yes, ghostscript can read and write PDFs too. Pretty well in fact. No option yet to produce X1-a conformant output yet, but there's some talk. Of course it can read and render X1-a, as it is a subset of the full spec.
GEGL is just a pipe dream right now. If something happens like GEGL and it pushes gimp to a point where it can be considered a serious tool for prepress, I'll change my tune.
Or gimp can stay the way it is, and fill the niche for web designers and amature photography. It would be a shame to go this far and not go the rest of the way though.
Yeah that's what I should have said in my post. It's not so much that Gimp doesn't have a pantone library per se, but that even if they supported CMYK they still wouldn't have arbitrary spot color support.
A note of interest on this matter though, ghostscript can read, convert, and RIP PSD files now. Supporting up to 8 color channels IIRC.
Also, thanks to my company's investment in open technology, never versions of ghostscript have a "tiffsep" driver that can output tiff separations.
While gimp stagnates and leaves us prepress people in the cold, ghostscript and other tools like epstool and gsview (gsview/epstool supports DCS2 now, again, development funded by the company I work for) are really coming into their own in the prepress world.
CMYK would be nice, but without Pantone it's still not on par. And the chance of gimp getting pantone support is low.
Besides, having to remember obscure command syntax to get things working will be excellent for her memory.
I wonder what the overlap is between environmental types, and the ones insisting on zero defects in their LCD screen.
I don't have to wonder if they see the hypocrisy, I know they don't.
What I'm saying is that some jobs wouldn't be done at all otherwise.
Take for instance the story on NPR of people working for $1 a day in India, sorting through garbage to pick out recyclables.
Obviously such work benefits the environment, and the worker.
If there were a $5 an hour minimum wage for these workers, no one would be able to do that job, it wouldn't ever be worth it. It's cheaper just to throw it all away and bury it under. The worker would have less job options, maybe being forced to crime to be able to eat.
These people are willing to work for $1 a day, and obviously they have no better job option, so who is the government to say they aren't allowed to work?
Those aren't "jobs that Americans won't take". Those are "jobs that companies won't pay Americans to do".
It's basic economics. If I can make $4 an hour revenue by hiring someone to do a certain job, I won't hire anyone to do that job, and the demand will stay unfilled, because it would cost me far more than $4/hour to hire someone.
This creates economic efficiency, because the job goes undone, the demand goes unfilled.
It doesn't matter if there is someone willing to do the job for $2 or $3 an hour, the government forbids us from making such a mutually beneficial transaction.
So the person willing and able to work stays unemployed, and my demand goes unfilled.
How is that good again?
The original GTA used IPX/SPX only and was slow as hell in multiplayer.
It works on the same principle as a transformer. Nothing scary.
Quick charge times open up some doors.
Think special electric car lane at a stop light, with big coils under the car that do inductive coupled recharges while you wait at a stop light.
And the obvious application of being able to store more regenerative braking energy somewhere.
Of course, all these mini charges make what you said more important, we need to also have batteries that can be cycled a lot more than current ones.
No one seemed to care when Blockbuster started giving very privacy invading hair strand drug tests. One of the only companies to do so. The problem with the test is that it shows any drug use in the last several months, which is none of Blockbuster's business!
Of course, I believe they are free to use this test if they want to, but the public was also free to stop patronizing such a privacy invading company, and they didn't.
Would a PostScript interpreter be considered prepress software, then?
Yes. And we make heavy use of ghostscript, gsview, and epstool whereever we can. It's far from everything we need in prepress software though.
"A phone call or two" are not how most of the stories of abused credit ratings read.
Seems to me more like a multi-year process of making calls and writing letters, and dealing with sleezy collection agencies.
Of course they would. Insurance is the art of handicapping, just like horse racing or any other form of betting. They are betting that you won't get seriously ill, and you are betting that you will.
The insurance company must make sure to always have the odds in their favor, to act otherwise is counter to what an insurance company is.
I'm not sure why people get the misconception that insurance companies are something they aren't. You are simply placing a bet, and the odds are for the house.
They might make you wait a year before paying on any preexisting condition though.
I did it in high school.
It's OK. Not great. The key is to set up a voice-mail only telephone number that is not attached to any land line. The telco can set this up with some runaround, not every person you talk to at the telco knows how to do it. It costs about $20 a month or so.
If you don't do this, prepare to be constantly bugged by people expecting free phone support.
One of the topics is why corporations don't use Macs.
We'd look kinda silly loading $3000 in software on a G4 mac mini that would barely run it, now wouldn't we?
The truth isn't offtopic. When we need to buy a new Mac, it's a mjor production with lease options considered, capital budgets, etc. It costs about $5000 to buy a new mac once you add in all the prepress software you need.
A new Linux box on the other hand, it's a quick $500 and then it's over.
Checks can be bleached and new amounts & payee's info added
Not easily. Most modern checks have security features that cause spots to turn brown if exposed to common bleaching agents.
It's extremely common in the US. I generally have 4 or 5 things to shred with every credit card bill. Stupid "access checks", "special offers", "fraud protection insurance", etc.
Einstein didn't write like a hyperactive 5 year old. Actually that's insulting to the 5 year old artists.
They'll probably miss the comet because of metric conversion errors.
Have you tried pointing a camera at a monitor displaying the camera's image in a darkish room, and putting it very close?
Eventually the hall of mirrors effect melts away to an amorphus blob of blue (not sure why it is blue, I'm sure there is a technical reason, probably based on CCD sensitivities), and small movements of the camera can control the spinning/morphing of the bright blob.
It can make for some cool effects.