RE: [WinMac] Re: Graphic production, which is the better platfor m?


Jim Royal(jimr[at]eicon.com)
Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:12:13 -0500


Dan Swartz wrote:

> >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!).
>
> Unless the Resource Fork gets corrupted... :(
>
>
Just a technical point: There are very few data file formats that use
resource forks, and virtually no graphics files formats that use them.
Resource forks are for applications. (File creator and type IDs are in the
disk directory, not the resource fork.)

Jim Royal
Technical Publications
"Understanding is a three-edged sword"

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