17 Jan
2012
17 Jan
'12
1:09 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:57 PM, david wrote:
And, finally, most pro graphic designers use Macs.
I'm afraid you had spent quite a while under a shower of marketing
bullshit before you posted that :) This is absolutely not true.
Perhaps you are thinking in terms of western market, and even then --
a special group of it.
Apple indeed made some nice decisions oriented towards pro designers
and prepress engineers (e.g. ColorSync), but even then they got some
things terribly wrong (which has a lot to do with infancy of color
management per se).
programmer, fluent with the command line, etc.) IMHO,
Microsoft ignores
graphic designers because in repeated (not-well-done efforts) they've been
unable to crack the market. Other competitors with much stronger Windows
graphics products than MS have barely been able to survive, let alone grow
(CorelDraw, Xara).
Corel quitted the Mac market, because they weren't able to justify
development with sales. Which, I'm sure, you are fully aware of.
move to Corel's HQ. Considering what Corel did
with its other Linux products
(killed them), I may have to find a replacement for it. And the other RAW
processing software on Linux just is not feature competitive.
Make sure you've had a look at darktable ;)
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org