Posted on 10/18/2010 5:48:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
He’s certainly ... passionate.
I honestly don’t miss ATM at all, speaking as a graphics professional in high page count color catalogs. It was a nightmare, but it was the way to go for many years.
I like the big print, I can actually read it. And, I don’t need the alternative lifestyle, just a phone.
Microsoft has got it's friendlies at work...note the source:
Wow, sounds like we have a lot in common. I agree on ATM, but did you use a Mac when it first came out? I had a Mac II SE/30 and when ATM came out it was AWESOME to be able to scale fonts and have them remain smooth. It opened up a whole new world. I also was with a company who was the first beta tester for Photoshop in the nation (they also CODED Postscript, pre-Illustrator) Interesting days.
I sold Scitex Visionary for the two years it plagued the market, lol, speaking of a blast from the past. It was an obscenely expensive RIP that didn’t work most of the time, but it was the only one out there for a short while.
I used the Scitex from 1991-93. It was the first Unix interface I had seen, and it even previewed the postscript file on screen. But it took so long to do every graphical command (like 2-3 MINUTES delay between each click!) that we ended up just using straight code to execute jobs. However whatever would choke the AGFA would always print on the Scitex.
I can recall color separators throwing up their hands in desperation and just deleting the files down to page geometry and type along with any graduated tints (which were a big deal, odd as it sounds), sending that through the RIP, and table stripping loose scans into the output. I started selling it in ‘89.
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