Marten van de Kraats wrote:
>
> That is very much true. I know this from daily experience.
> Still, theoratically all of the desktop publishing work can still can
> be done on lowend 68k's.
>
Theoretically any number of things work. I don't want
to get into hair-splitting because essentially it's
true except for the time element. Photoshop 6.x is 10
times the app that PS 4.0.1, the last 68k version, is.
Professional files have become so huge that it would
take an 840AV all day just to render the changes. Let's
not even talk about printing it. Like I said, it
depends on where the stuff is targeted for. If it's a
newsletter, that's one thing, but if it's a full color
ad for the New York Times Sunday magazine don't think
that a Quad with Photoshop 4 and Illustrator 5 is going
to make the deadline. (And yes, at one time they did.
This is where the wretched cycle starts. Because as the
Macs get faster, the clients expectations rise even
faster. Not long ago at an ad agency where I worked we
put out a four color, national magazine ad for
Panasonic Toughbooks in something like 6-1/2 hours.
That includes PDF-ing the thing back and forth from the
client. From a heels-in-the-dirt start of approved copy
to sending it to vendors (the publications) in 6 and
something hours. It's insane and it just gets worse.)
William
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