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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Photoshop educational discount (was B/W digital printing options)
From: "Will" <wlarsen@ocsnet.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:05:00 -0800
References: <861AF24D-438B-11D6-BF14-003065D4DE46@sohogurus.net>

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







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In reply to: Message from Allan Wafkowski <allan@sohogurus.net> ([Leica] Re: Photoshop educational discount (was B/W digital printing options))