Re: apple reinvents the pen and cave painting!

Andreas,

I love your passion, but it's counterbalanced by your woeful grasp of how things were before you likely started playing the Photoshop game - For those of us who were around for it, let me tell you that in the beginning outputting Photoshop 1.0 work for professional use was an exercise in frustration that makes FCP-X feel like walking out of the desert only to be handed a bottle of Evian, a case of cold Carta Blanca, and a $1000 gift certificate redeemable at the local massage therapist/supermodel school.

I used to have to BEG local Linotronic operators to accept my early Photoshop files. It took 6, 7, 8 revs before I could get the 1.0 versions of the RIPS to put out a page with any reasonable grey-scale fidelity.

And god forbid you wanted to combine raster elements like photos with Postscript stuff!
Kearning pairs? You're joking. Font substitution? Every damn time.

It took patient YEARS to get that stuff sorted out into a consistently working model with the NEW standards.

I get that everyone has something that WORKS now. And that means there's way more resistance to the change. But tech IS a change or die world. Anyone who doesn't get this central reality is going to have big problems in the long run, IMO.

I don't know if using FCP 7 is some day going to feel like ordering up an 85 line screen halftone for a newspaper ad. But I suspect that it will. The question is how long will it take the industry to lurch forward the next big jump.

FWIW.

"Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions."-Justice O'Conner