Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wafkowski writes: | Do you remember the time before Apple came out with True Type fonts? Do | you remember what Adobe charged for their fonts? Obscene. There has | never been a time when Adobe has not attempted to rip the entrails out | of its customer base. Their business model seems to be that of hyenas | after dark. Perhaps you would be better off sticking to the Single Malt thread. You seem to be regressing to a period more than a decade old when the battle for fonts was a make or break issue for Adobe. (for person's not currently imbibing, a brief history can be found at http://www.truetype.demon.co.uk/tthist.htm ). Certainly by 1995 true type fonts were readily available from such companies as Corel which was often bundled at the time with many computer systems (I just loaded all of their True Type fonts into my computer). The light versions of Photoshop will handle nearly all of the manipulations required by the typical amateur photographer. Plus what you learn with the light version is applicable to the full versions in case you get serious. If you choose to learn something other than what is the industry standard, fine...it's your time. My office uses the LE version of Photoshop which came bundled with scanners and cameras. Works fine for us. We also have Illustrator 10 which is used by the graphic-guru. We have 25 licenses for Adobe Acrobat v.5. We didn't buy these licenses in a frivolous manner since we make the Buffalo squeal before we buy anything (for our non-US readers, the US 5-cent piece has a buffalo on it and to make it squeal means we are really cheap). Adobe is one of the cheaper software companies whose products we use. If you want to get expensive, get into vector, rather than raster, application programs. Bill Larsen Terra Bella, CA Vector 'r us - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html