On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 04:56, Alastair Robinson wrote: [snip] > BTW - not having used either, can you explain where presswise and trapwise > were deficient? (Nothing like learning from others' mistakes :)) > > All the best,
it was a 'broken' piece of software, imho. its output to film or plate had registration errors, moire errors, and other critical issues. stuff to do with its postscript parsing. many such things. imho, it is not important to dwell on its problems, but to understand deeply what is really required in such a tool, and then work towards it with a fresh mind. after all, the domain of imposition is centuries old. all the underlying technologies such as postscript, are mature. i also feel we should not consider whether it should be plug-in, a script, a module, a stand-alone, a fork, (like gimp-film) or whatever, until a detailed spec sheet is created. that will give us our answer. :-) LL
