Anyone can call their product "professional" and I doubt if anybody would willingly call their product "amateur" or "barely adequate" but what the manufacturer calls a product has no bearing on the actual professional standing of that product.
The proof is in what professionals use, and Igor is NOT what most professionals use. I won't go out on a limb and state that NO professionals use it, but that doesn't make those professionals necessarily very GOOD professionals. I am sure we have all run into supposed "professionals" who we wish we had never hired to install that toilet or wire that whole house fan or sing at that wedding ceremony. But the fact remains that when you are trying to establish a professional reputation, you need to be able to present the highest quality product. If you can do it with Igor, then God bless you! But you will be sorely out of luck when your potential client wants output in finale format to send to their publisher. Michael Edwards wrote: > Michael Edwards. > > [David H. Bailey:] > > >>The big issue is that Igor is NOT a true professional engraver's tool -- >>it cannot come close to emulating the high-quality output that clients >>deserve when they pay professional rates to a computer-engraver to give >>them professional-looking printouts. >> > ... > >>If you are going to offer professional services, you will need to >>purchase either or both Sibelius or Finale. >> > ... > >>But Igor is not going to establish a good reputation for you. >> > > I accept the truth of these statements, even though I'm sure NoteHeads > would dispute them, because they *do* claim to have fully professional software. > If Igor really is as inadequate as this for professional work, I wonder if > anyone has told NoteHeads this. Possibly Jari has, because I've seen him post > on the Igor-Talk list; but I don't remember if anyone has specifically pointed > out that Igor just isn't professional in its capabilities. > If they have pointed it out, I wonder why NoteHeads don't do something > about it. I mean, surely it would be in their own interests, upon learning > this, to check whether it's true, and, if it is, to promptly do something about > it. > > Regards, > Michael Edwards. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
