Every agent, publisher or editor I've spoken with/worked with has demanded Courier 12/24. I know some agents who won't even consider a manuscript unless it's Courier.
for any final formatting. Style sheets and master pages, man.
I use Word for writing, but Word at its most minimal - all the gimgaws turned off, no toolbars, no silliness. If 10.3's version of Textedit is sufficiently advanced, I may use that. All I need is something that will save text.
Every editor, agent or publisher in the U.S. is going to demand the same typeface for any piece, story, novel or script turned in: Courier 12/24. It is easy to read, gives a known number of characters per page, and the double spacing makes writing notes easy.
It was Peugeot's cars hitting 250 mph on the Mulsanne, along with various flying Mercedes, which brought on the bone-headed decision to put kinks in that lovely straight.
At 200 mph, a good race car becomes a terrible airplace.
- John Watson
No. I live in Manhattan, where I want to live, and I don't want the maintenance that comes with a modern race car. I've also raced enough to know that I am not the next Senna, or even the next Chris Amon. But I would like to sit next to a stone professional (Jacky Ickx, say) and have them drive me around Le Mans for half an hour.
but one which remains: being driven around Le Mans (without the chicanes on the Mulsanne) in the passenger seat of a 962C at race speed for a coupla laps. Nothing like going 240 mph on the ground.
Failing that, gimme the 962C for a weekend. There's this road in Montana that goes straight mile after mile. . .
Is there really much need for so much desktop power? How many users will utilize the full potential of a dual G5?
Anyone who does serious work in Photoshop, After Effects, Final Cut Pro/Avid, etc. Increasing system power provides for increasing sophistication in terms of what one is able to produce, and the reach of the creative impulse will always push the envelope of available technology.
Put another way, I can make a maxed out dual 1.42 G4 crawl in Photoshop. Give me a large enough hi-res, CMYK image with many layers and an art director who wants to try something new and the G4 will soon be sweating. I'm sure my ex-girlfriend the Avid editor can say the same thing with examples from her field. And, while I am neither a scientist or a programmer, I'm sure there are people in both fields who are salivating at the prospect of larger data sets and the ability to consider more complex calculations.
most multimedia pros who are running . . . Windows
Both those guys must be pissed!
I know, I know, but I couldn't resist. . .
How often will you utilize all the capabilities of the machine and stretch the system past the capabilities of the alternative?
If you are doing serious Photoshop or After Effects work, all the time. No matter how fast the newest machine is, there's an art director out there with a layout which will make the machine choke.
I now agree - you definitely are an old-timer in the industry. I don't know of a single printer in our city (Perth) that doesn't accept PDF files, and most now don't accept anything else. It wouldn't matter if we printed using Pagemaker (well, it wouldn't matter to our printers, anyway).
Then I hope you're using Acrobat to automate the process of making those PDFs for quality control.
Wish I could do more to help, but Oz is a bit of a long walk from NYC.
...at least not when you consider what ought to be the primary focus of any schoolsystem: to give the children knowledge and prepare them for a life in the real world.
I thought the goal of education was to give the student the ability to think for him/herself. It would make sense to expose the students to as much as possible and let them make up their own minds.
Hmm.... well, we are saddled with an unfortunate mess called Suitcase for our font management - I suspect that to be part of the issue we're having. A few possibly dodgy fonts don't help, either.
There's nothing wrong with Suitcase that using Suitcase Server won't fix. Dodgy (read: corrupt) fonts could be your basic problem.
The fact is, though, that there's just no excuse for the OS crashing like that for any reason. At the very least, some debugging info and a vaguely useful error message would be nice.
Once again, if your OS is crashing like that, you have IT problems. That's true no whether you're using OS 9, Winders or Linux.
Don't like the fonts? report an error and refuse to load them.
This is EXACTLY what Quark does: it gives you the option to choose another font or let it slide. If you are not seeing this, then there's something very, very wrong. I am beginning to think this is a case of PEBKAC.
Therein, really, lies the problem - sure macs might be stable when they're correctly tweaked and configured... but there's SFA information about/how/ they must be tweaked and configured. Most of the Apple dealers know almost nothing about it, including one in our city that/claims/ to be a DTP specialist. If the damnn things just provided some diagnostic information when things went wrong, it'd be possible to at least isolate the issues and fix them.
There is an enormous amount of information out there for configuring Macs for DTP. There are books, seminars, forums and newsgroups. There are crusty old DTP people like me hanging out waiting for someone to ask them. Trust me - we love to go on and on about Postscript errors for hours.
Anyway, I suspect our issues stem from:
(a) the fact that quark doesn't properly handle network file operations, and in fact Quark's only suggestion is "don't use it on a network" (*lol*) or get OSX... and the quark upgrade.
In my experience, Quark has no problems with properly set up networks. It's only major flaw is corrupting a document if the machine crashes while saving to a server. There are two solutions to this: 1) nuke the Quark Prefs file and restart Quark; 2) Use Quark's built-in backup function.
(b) a few possibly dodgy/damaged fonts, but they're somewhat critical and we can't find replacements.
Can't find replacements? Just get the original disks/CDs on which the fonts came when you purchased them. If you can't find them, contact Adobe/whomever with proof of purchase. You did buy these fonts, right?
Corrupt fonts will kill your docs, your apps, your OS and your RIPS. In other words, they're bad.
(C) Suitcase, apparently the dodgiest font manager around.
Suitcase is fine if set up properly. I worked at a place which beta-tested Suitcase Server. We found a few minor bugs, but they were worked out.
It's easy to say, in theory, "well you suspect you know what's wrong, go and fix it" but in reality it just doesn't work out like that. All these things cost (quite a lot of) money to even test.
The fact is that we're moving to InDesign on Win2k simply because our single (cheap) pilot machine is about a thousand times as stable as the macs, one third the price, and about 3x as fast to boot.
I haven't ever met you and I have never seen your operation, but I think it's a case of PEBKAC. I also don't understand what you mean by "our single (cheap) pilot machine". Does that mean you have one machine which is doing DTP? In that case, you need to find some people who do real DTP and PAY THEM SOME FREAKING MONEY to figure your shit out. If you're a larger business, then you need to
The faults is yours, or your IT people. I was in the DTP world for 13 years, starting with System 6.0.3 and Photoshop 1.0 through to about a year ago. I worked and freelanced in some of the largest printing and ad agencies on the east coast. In all that time, the only time I ever saw real trouble with that combo was with IT people who didn't know what they were doing. The most stable network I ever saw was a large, heterogeneous network running Macs, Wintel machines and serious Unix servers. It all worked seamlessly.
Apple has announced a Windows version of iTunes, and thus the iTMS, will be available by the end of the year. I believe someone even posted the ad seeking programmers for the project here.
It's "Philip K. Dick, whose novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was adapted by Ridley Scott into the brilliant sci-fi movie Blade Runner, and whose short story Minority Report was turned into a steaming pile of crap by Steven Spielberg."
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That explains things - I haven't done any journalism since 1996. It's all been literary stuff since.
Every agent, publisher or editor I've spoken with/worked with has demanded Courier 12/24. I know some agents who won't even consider a manuscript unless it's Courier.
Courieser and courieser.
I use Word for writing, but Word at its most minimal - all the gimgaws turned off, no toolbars, no silliness. If 10.3's version of Textedit is sufficiently advanced, I may use that. All I need is something that will save text.
Every editor, agent or publisher in the U.S. is going to demand the same typeface for any piece, story, novel or script turned in: Courier 12/24. It is easy to read, gives a known number of characters per page, and the double spacing makes writing notes easy.
I had to restore from an old Dock backup and re-run Transparent Dock, but it works now.
I weep for the state of reading comprehension in this country.
Pulling "facts" out of your ass to make your "point" just makes you look like an "idiot".
At 200 mph, a good race car becomes a terrible airplace. - John Watson
No. I live in Manhattan, where I want to live, and I don't want the maintenance that comes with a modern race car. I've also raced enough to know that I am not the next Senna, or even the next Chris Amon. But I would like to sit next to a stone professional (Jacky Ickx, say) and have them drive me around Le Mans for half an hour.
I'll take the car made by the company which has won Le Mans sixteen times.
Failing that, gimme the 962C for a weekend. There's this road in Montana that goes straight mile after mile. . .
I understand what you're saying, but I'm feeling pedantic.
That wasn't the issue.
It's a good thing Chomsky's never been guilty of using three words when one would do.
Can we PLEASE stop calling it "social engineering" and start calling it "telling lies", cause that's what it is.
Both those guys must be pissed!
I know, I know, but I couldn't resist. . .
If you are doing serious Photoshop or After Effects work, all the time. No matter how fast the newest machine is, there's an art director out there with a layout which will make the machine choke.Actually, over 70% of Adobe's Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign sales are for the Mac.
Then I hope you're using Acrobat to automate the process of making those PDFs for quality control.
Wish I could do more to help, but Oz is a bit of a long walk from NYC.
I thought the goal of education was to give the student the ability to think for him/herself. It would make sense to expose the students to as much as possible and let them make up their own minds.
There's nothing wrong with Suitcase that using Suitcase Server won't fix. Dodgy (read: corrupt) fonts could be your basic problem.
Once again, if your OS is crashing like that, you have IT problems. That's true no whether you're using OS 9, Winders or Linux.
This is EXACTLY what Quark does: it gives you the option to choose another font or let it slide. If you are not seeing this, then there's something very, very wrong. I am beginning to think this is a case of PEBKAC.
There is an enormous amount of information out there for configuring Macs for DTP. There are books, seminars, forums and newsgroups. There are crusty old DTP people like me hanging out waiting for someone to ask them. Trust me - we love to go on and on about Postscript errors for hours.
In my experience, Quark has no problems with properly set up networks. It's only major flaw is corrupting a document if the machine crashes while saving to a server. There are two solutions to this: 1) nuke the Quark Prefs file and restart Quark; 2) Use Quark's built-in backup function.
Can't find replacements? Just get the original disks/CDs on which the fonts came when you purchased them. If you can't find them, contact Adobe/whomever with proof of purchase. You did buy these fonts, right?
Corrupt fonts will kill your docs, your apps, your OS and your RIPS. In other words, they're bad.
Suitcase is fine if set up properly. I worked at a place which beta-tested Suitcase Server. We found a few minor bugs, but they were worked out.
I haven't ever met you and I have never seen your operation, but I think it's a case of PEBKAC. I also don't understand what you mean by "our single (cheap) pilot machine". Does that mean you have one machine which is doing DTP? In that case, you need to find some people who do real DTP and PAY THEM SOME FREAKING MONEY to figure your shit out. If you're a larger business, then you need to
The faults is yours, or your IT people. I was in the DTP world for 13 years, starting with System 6.0.3 and Photoshop 1.0 through to about a year ago. I worked and freelanced in some of the largest printing and ad agencies on the east coast. In all that time, the only time I ever saw real trouble with that combo was with IT people who didn't know what they were doing. The most stable network I ever saw was a large, heterogeneous network running Macs, Wintel machines and serious Unix servers. It all worked seamlessly.
Actually, the fact that you can't find them for $250 MEANS THEY'RE WORTH MORE THAN $250!
To make obscene amounts of money.
Apple has announced a Windows version of iTunes, and thus the iTMS, will be available by the end of the year. I believe someone even posted the ad seeking programmers for the project here.
It's "Philip K. Dick, whose novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was adapted by Ridley Scott into the brilliant sci-fi movie Blade Runner, and whose short story Minority Report was turned into a steaming pile of crap by Steven Spielberg."