> i tend to disagree on some issues here. PDF has commoditized postscript,
> and bridged the 'digital divide' between the advanced users and
> beginners. as a macintosh user since 1984 i can tell you ...
Very interesting. Many things here I didn't know. Thanks. :)
I don't have first-hand experience working with full-time with fonts and
page composition. Most of my knowledge about professional typesetting and
typography is second-hand. Among my friends is one gentleman who has
worked for fifteen years with The Economist as a graphic designer and
typographer, and has designed the font family used by that magazine
today. He is an avid Mac user, he likes Linux and Unix, and says that the
Windows implementation of rendering engines, etc, is not up to the mark.
He says that even Adobe's packages available on both platforms do their
job differently; the Mac version does it better, because of native
rendering engine support within the OS.
Don't know how it fits in with your experiences.
Shuvam
PS: It's refreshing to just talk to a few people who appear to know that
there's a whole beautiful world beyond MS Word and Pagemaker when it
comes to formatted text. :)
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