Adrian Chadd wrote:
On Mon, May 18, 2009, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
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.
I'd rather they'd be taught the difference between the two, so hopefully
those who are smart enough to "get it" will have the oppertunity to.
Don't dumb stuff down. Kids are smarter than you'd think. And god knows
that FOSS developers could do with being exposed to stuff -outside-
of the cool+hip FOSS environment(s) today.
Far from limiting the kids chances, I was hoping for the opposite. There is far
too much PDF/proprietary and "Desktop" published content/designed for the
printed page, on the web and not enough open accessible (HTML) web content.
If the kids are going to be provided with education on all the different
formats, discussion about appropriate communication mediums etc, then fine but....
Comparison with RGB
Comparisons between RGB displays and CMYK prints can be difficult, since the
color reproduction technologies and properties are so different. A laser or
ink-jet printer prints in dots per inch (dpi) which is very different from a
computer screen, which displays graphics in pixels per inch (ppi). A computer
screen mixes shades of red, green, and blue to create color pictures. A CMYK
printer must compete with the many shades of RGB with only one shade each of
cyan, magenta and yellow, which it will mix using dithering, halftoning or some
other optical technique; this dithering produces a lower level of detail than
the printer's dpi suggests.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK>
It would also appear introducing CMYK images to the web adds further problems
... see the discussion here:
<http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.graphics.apps.photoshop/2006-03/msg00067.html>
Perhaps, in 12 months time we could do a survey and see how many kids laptops
have "the gimp" on them .... or whether the school websites are full of PDF
documents.
I know, I might be a lone voice here, but I see it as atonement for once
recommending standisation on MSOffice in 1989 because it was the most
userfriendly - at the time, it wasn't as good as ?? for footnotes, or as good as
?? for table of contents and Excel just couldn't handle the data that Lotus123
could.
On the other hand, I was never a fan of Lotus Notes...and it would seem that's
been given away now....
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OpenNTF is devoted to enabling groups of individuals all over the world to
collaborate on IBM Lotus Notes/Domino applications and release them as open
source.
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Marghanita
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