[WinMac] Re: Graphic production, which is the better platform?
Alex Dearden(pata[at]tampabay.rr.com)
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:23:58 -0500
>Graphic production, which is the better platform?
Hmmm... without getting into flame wars, I would say that a big thing for
artists is ease of use. Here the Mac exels. On the Mac you can open
virtually any graphic file that you get without having to rename it (this
is one of the things I find most disturbing about any Windows platform:
you change the extensions of your file or forget to put one in and good
luck trying to open it!). Photoshop on the Mac (or Debabelizer or Graphic
converter) will open virtually any graphic file you have out there.
Also postscript printing is more reliable on the Mac (although I don't
know about Liam's claim of it being built in to the system) and the
drivers are more mature than on the PC, especially NT (which is rally
your only choice, 95 is not a production OS at all) where only recently
did Adobe write a postscript level 2 driver for it.
Sharing info and files between graphic applications is also a lot easier
on the Mac.
Alex Dearden
pata@doglover.com
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