On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 18:22, Thomas Zastrow wrote: > On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 22:53:04 +0200 > P Linnell <scribusdocs at atlantictechsolutions.com> wrote: > > <snip /> > > > > I made a concious decision to really hammer the hell out ( and I did ;) of > > the > > 1.0 release candidates in testing right up to the last minute with a new > > workstation in a real pre-press environment, which were lent to me by a > > client. So, this put back some things which are not finished. > > Can you tell me more about that??? What is your "a real pre-press > environment"?? > > Greetings, > > Tom >
Catching up on the mail I missed on holiday.... "Real pre-press enviroment: 6 Win2k boxes AthlonXP, PIII or P4 with the full array of Adobe Print apps: PM 7.0.1, ID 2.0.2, PS 6 or 7, Illy 10, Acrobat 5 and 6 etc., Corel Draw Suite, Quark 4 and 5, all have at least 512MB ram and ATA 100 drives. One AthlonXP and one P4 workstation are dual boot Win2k/RH9 machines <<These are the Scribus test boxes>> Preflight tools: Enfocus Pit Stop Professional 5.04 Callas PDF Inspektor Markzware Flight Check Pro 4.5 All monitors - high end Sony, Samsung or Mitsubishi screens. All profiled with Monaco, Praxisoft and littlecms profiler tools and hardware photospectromter. EFI Colorwise Pro, numerous other DTP utilities and apps. Controlled environment with full spectrum lighting. Polaroid 3600 dpi film/slide scanner Epson Firewire 48 bit 1600DPI (true) Professional scanner with Silverfast scanning software (the best you can buy) Microtek B5 scanner G3 Macs with Mac OS 9, Quark 4.11 and 5, PM 6.52, 7.0 and PS 6 2200 Adobe or Bitstream Type 1 fonts RH9 Samba Server with Samba 3.0 in Active Directory mode as backup domain controller, LDAP and DNS etc. Win2k server with mirrored 83 GB LV-SCA raid arrays with Adaptec U160 SCSI controllers, load balanced adapter teamed Intel Pro server network cards Cisco Routers and Switches Cat 6e wiring 2 HP inkjet proofers with Adobe PS3 HP Laserjet with Adobe PS engine EFI Fiery RIP, 512MB Ram with newest Adobe Extreme PS3 engine and PDF 1.4 support, supports PDF 1.4 and in RIP separations, true CMYK 1200 dpi printer with Pantone color support and hardware icc profiling Having access to all this has been invaluable in testing Scribus, especially having a Linux desktop aside the DTP production machines. Plus there are thousands of image files TIFF, EPS etc. to use in testing. Basically everything short of a platesetter. Hope that helps, Peter
