From: Tommaso (tommaso.scigliuzzo_at_tin.it)
Date: Tue Oct 05 2004 - 16:39:56 PDT
Hi Ed,
but I can't resist
:-)
http://www.versiontracker.com/macos/cat/prepress Mac OS 9 (20 pages of
choices)
http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/cat/prepress Mac OS X (18 pages)
http://www.versiontracker.com/windows/cat/prepress (15 pages)
Probably the first two results are for simple apps, add-on and plug-ins
and the third for serious apps (among those MS Publisher) probably not.
:-)
Probably in www.download.com/ or www.tucows.com portals will be more
Win side results than Mac, with more choices than versiontracker.com,
probably not.
:-)
This just to say that, with the exception of games side, of a lot of
vertical apps and tons of chespest pieces of hardware (those sell in
blister without a name outside always defective 1 on 2) today everyone
can have the same choices on Mac and PC, at the same price.
I'm a mac user since to 1991 and I think that what you said could be
correct for the period of deepest Apple crisis (1995-1997) when a lot
of software and hardware developers stopped their support to Mac and
switched on Win. Starting from 1998 the situation is changed with more
software and hardware again.
:-)
Why not Linux? On Intel/AMD or PowerPC?
:-)
BTW
Everyone is free to make his right choice.
:-)
With deepest respect for your exceptional Newton activity
Tommaso
Il giorno 06/ott/04, alle 00:12, Ed Kummel ha scritto:
> There are literally dozens of DTPs for the
> PC...purchase and shareware...My personal choice is
> PageMaker (I was using PM back when it was owned by
> Aldus on my Windows 1.0 OS) I've used PM on both the
> Mac and PC and found no functional difference...but I
> prefer the PC for the sheer volume of choices
> (hardware and software) available...I'm extremly picky
> and will go through a half a dozen applications,
> MINIMUM before I find one I like that does the job I
> want...the PC affords me these choices.
> As for a DTP you may want to try, Microsoft Publisher
> is a very good entry level DTP that has a remarkable
> penetration in the corporate market...Most times, if
> you send someone at a company a *.pub file, they will
> have MSPublisher to open it with...
> Unfortunatly, it's been years since I've done any DTP
> so, my information may be somewhat out of date.
> Ed
> web/gadget guru
> http://newton.tek-ed.com (download Newton packages)
>
> --- LAG <lagoff11_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> YOU CAN also buy those same dtp programs for the pc.
>> my wife uses both macs and pc as a graphic
>> designer. your choice of either mac or pc is up to
>> you. as i have said before its a preference thing.
>> you know what you need to do and what you want to
>> do. so you need to figure out which is better for
>> you at this time and go from there. i will refrain
>> from a mac vs pc thread as i am a pc user.
>>
>> hth,
>>
>> LAG
>>
>
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