Marghanita da Cruz wrote: > david wrote: > <snip> >> >> I'm not an expert but I believe that the lack of native CMYK is >> fundamental to the printing problems. It's rather more than a "fancy >> feature". Printing photos and artwork is fundamental to a whole >> industry (or two). >> >> There are other software with colour management (cinepaint comes to >> mind) but it's nowhere near as easy to use or as sophisticated as >> Photoshop. It's one area where FOSS has a way to go. I would love >> someone to tell me I'm wrong. >> > > So, the school kids are being taught to develop content for four colour > industrial printing, rather than websites? > > Personally, I would think that school kids and FOSS developers time is > better > spent improving tools and adding to content in the online world. > What really erks me, is that no doubt a PDF newsletters will be produced > and > emailed around to be printed on home and school printers (no commercial > printer > in sight). - Tell me I'm wrong.
No no - printed on black and white printers :) - colour printing is still too expensive for most schools apart from the mid to high fee range private schools. Fil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
