Funny thing is all the Cable and BroadCast Networks get paid by the Cable Operators to "deliver" the content. So, what is happening is the TNT is worried that it is loosing it's double-dip of money. 1. From the ads and 2. from the Cable companies. I pay my cable bill. The cable company pays TNT. I've paid from the show. End of Contract.
Funny, I've been running OS X in a Scitex Brisque Environment for test from months. Got no problems even with classic apps. I miss some OS 9 only scitex tools for searching our massive Ripro Servers and Presstouch editing software doesn't work, but everything else works like a champ. I just ran a test job from InDesign 2 in OS X all ok from Mac to Brisque to Kodak Approval(Proof) to Dolev(Film) to Lotem(Plate). I can do that from Xpress to but it runs in Classic. What is really great is I can manage my Ripro Server and Brisques (all unix) right from the terminal in OS X by telenet.
Xpress is the status quo, but that doesn't make it good. It's an ok app, I have used it everyday for about 8 years. My point is that the apps success was accidental and the company is horrible. The app itself really hasn't grown at all since version 3.3. It became the status quo for 1 reason: When Xpress and Pagemaker started the market share battle. Xpress had DCS EPS files and could output color separated film right from the app and had rudamentary trapping. Pagemaker required Preprint or Trapwise to separate a file. There were a few other things Xpress did, but the real one was the Output. Prepress and Printing Companies loved it and "forced" it on to the designers. Most early designers prefered Pagemaker, it was the Prepress people that got them to switch to Xpress. If Adobe can offer Indesign with the features that Xpress requies Xtension for they could start to capture market, because the Xtension have to be rewritten for 5 and OS X.
Quark has always been the bain of designers and Prepress. The only reason Designers use it is because prepress house asked them to. The only reason prepress uses it is because years back it was the only app that could output color sep film right from the app and a few other things and Pagemaker sucked for prepress. Quark has always raped its customers with costly tech support, expensive upgrades and really bad bug fixes that caused more problems then they fixed. If fact the company I work at just 12 months ago officaily switched to Xpress 4 because of all the problems. I hope InDesign gets a following. I've looked at Xpress 5 but it's more of a 4.3 release in my opinion. Quark was in the right place at the right time and nothing else. Aldus dropped the ball with Pagemaker and fell on hard times when it had the opportunity to kill Quark. Any problems Quark has with Mac OS X is all Quark and bad programming on their part. The only app I have that crashes my OS 9 mac. The only reason I would want it on OS X is so I don't have to reboot all the time.
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Funny thing is all the Cable and BroadCast Networks get paid by the Cable Operators to "deliver" the content. So, what is happening is the TNT is worried that it is loosing it's double-dip of money. 1. From the ads and 2. from the Cable companies. I pay my cable bill. The cable company pays TNT. I've paid from the show. End of Contract.
Funny, I've been running OS X in a Scitex Brisque Environment for test from months. Got no problems even with classic apps. I miss some OS 9 only scitex tools for searching our massive Ripro Servers and Presstouch editing software doesn't work, but everything else works like a champ. I just ran a test job from InDesign 2 in OS X all ok from Mac to Brisque to Kodak Approval(Proof) to Dolev(Film) to Lotem(Plate). I can do that from Xpress to but it runs in Classic. What is really great is I can manage my Ripro Server and Brisques (all unix) right from the terminal in OS X by telenet.
Xpress is the status quo, but that doesn't make it good. It's an ok app, I have used it everyday for about 8 years. My point is that the apps success was accidental and the company is horrible. The app itself really hasn't grown at all since version 3.3. It became the status quo for 1 reason: When Xpress and Pagemaker started the market share battle. Xpress had DCS EPS files and could output color separated film right from the app and had rudamentary trapping. Pagemaker required Preprint or Trapwise to separate a file. There were a few other things Xpress did, but the real one was the Output. Prepress and Printing Companies loved it and "forced" it on to the designers. Most early designers prefered Pagemaker, it was the Prepress people that got them to switch to Xpress. If Adobe can offer Indesign with the features that Xpress requies Xtension for they could start to capture market, because the Xtension have to be rewritten for 5 and OS X.
Quark has always been the bain of designers and Prepress. The only reason Designers use it is because prepress house asked them to. The only reason prepress uses it is because years back it was the only app that could output color sep film right from the app and a few other things and Pagemaker sucked for prepress. Quark has always raped its customers with costly tech support, expensive upgrades and really bad bug fixes that caused more problems then they fixed. If fact the company I work at just 12 months ago officaily switched to Xpress 4 because of all the problems. I hope InDesign gets a following. I've looked at Xpress 5 but it's more of a 4.3 release in my opinion. Quark was in the right place at the right time and nothing else. Aldus dropped the ball with Pagemaker and fell on hard times when it had the opportunity to kill Quark. Any problems Quark has with Mac OS X is all Quark and bad programming on their part. The only app I have that crashes my OS 9 mac. The only reason I would want it on OS X is so I don't have to reboot all the time.