PageMaker was a very useful program for small documents like brochures, but I was fond of Ventura Publisher [until Corel bought it] for long documents, [I was an initial beta tester for version 1.0]. Quark on the Mac is still the gold standard.
Any language based on pushing and popping from stacks is a hemorrhoid. The garbage you had to go through to get anything to print with Postscript was absurd to the nth degree.
Adobe predates even Gates for bogus copyright claims on its products. They originated the concept that by buying one of their products you gave them the right to control your hardware. Greed is usually behind the fall of all good ideas.
]]>THAT is sooooo wierd! Same here! Possibly for similar reasons (added to the fact that Adobe is down at the bottom of the cesspit with Micro$tuffed as far as I am concerned in the *Corporate Citizen* and honesty/’anything at all good’ stakes. That and their products are unmitigated garbage. I was SOOOOOOO annoyed when Adobe took over Macromedia and killed off Freehand! I don’t care, I still use the last MX version. I used to like Illustrator in the late 80’s, early 90’s. It was small and worked well, I used it with Aldus PageMaker (a great page layout tool Adobe took over and has been trying to bury for over a decade) and Quark Express for typesetting. 🙂 Adobe also took over Framemaker and have been slowly destroying that also. I met the creator of PageMaker, Paul Brainard, a few times when I was Aussie distro for Aldus & Quark and Adobe back in those days! After years of being a distributor, Adobe decided to set up shop for themselves and told us “Thanks for doing all the work and getting market share, now piss off!” We sued and won, but it cost a lot in energy, resources and time.
I still have my three *official* (red, green, blue) Postscript manuals from *way back when*(tm). LOL 😉 I created a couple PS RIP’s for printer companies that are no longer around. One was swallowed and digested by HP… The other just got very stupid and lost the plot. They are a shadow of their former selves.
I would be very happy to see Adobe die a horrible and painful death. 🙂
]]>You had no way of knowing, but Adobe and I have a very long and not very friendly history going back to Adobe’s early days as a type foundry and creator of the Postscript printer description language. I am definitely not a fan of their code.
I wrote too many information-filled, neutral “articles” in my days in intelligence and law enforcement. It’s not a lot of fun, or very fulfilling.
Embarq is the supplier of my DSL line, and has no connection to this place. They probably do have a facility in Niceville, but that is some distance from my office. The location information jumps all over the state depending on where Embarq is connecting me to the backbone on any given day.
]]>All it takes to overthrow a political party in the US is a cadre of activists who will apply themselves to the deadly boredom of actually running the party’s functions. It requires dedication that the rank-and-file just don’t have. This is why the Republicans are so messed up.
]]>as for diluting efforts… my very moderate, centrist [left of center on a few things] parents finally gave up on trying to save the republican party from itself, and joined the democratic party several years ago.
]]>They really do seem to dilute the effort with three socialist parties and two environmental parties, with 5 flavors of libertarians at the other end.
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