Yo compacters everywhere, Our Teri Pittman wrote:
>> I said "How do you think they did it before G3s?" The fact of the matter >> is that desktop publishing was developed on pretty basic machines. To which our william ahearn responded: >Yeah. On Plusses and then on up. But those days are >well over. If you're doing personal greeting cards or >your church's newsletter, you can still do it on an >LCIII. But if you're doing any real professional work, >the size of the files and the expectation from clients >that it will be done quickly rule out anything pre-G3. A prized possession of professional desk top publishing (the dtp part I understand - but what does professional mean? You get paid for it? Don't tell that to a volunteer firefighter hosing down your home.); anyway, a prized possession of dtp is my copy of "The Whale's Song". This was the first coffee table book ever published wholly on a Mac - no paste-up, no typesetting. The first edition was created on a Plus and an SE. The second edition reworked some of it with a Mac II. We are talking the very bloody ragged cutting edge of Aldus et al. This very colorful well laid out and illustrated book remains truly inspirational even to "pros" making their mortgage with the hottest doolie G4. Sure these Macs were slow. They forced even "pros" to take coffee breaks. For a pro laying out the production of next week's "New Yorker", yes, time is money. For many of the dtp pros in the industrial world, a Quadra would work fine if Apple, Adobe, Quark, and others supported it. And at least! one weekly newspaper of general circulation in America is still prepared wholly on Mac Plus'. On publishing day, one of those Plus does double duty with an ancient software controlling the even more ancient lead press. Imagine that. Yes, some publishing pros still do it all on a Mac Plus and a lead press. Hot fluid lead in the third millenia controlled by a Mac Plus and taking coffee breaks too. Now as ever, simply amazing; simply Mac. Bill -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
