Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: %%BoundingBox: statement
Keywords: Document Structure spec, Adobe Illustrator
Message-ID: <3960@phri.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 89 16:12:20 GMT
References: <3377@daisy.UUCP> <1120@adobe.UUCP>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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In article <1120@adobe.UUCP> greid@adobe.COM (Glenn Reid) writes:
> Unfortunately, the people who designed the convention are not the people
> who wrote Illustrator.  The application product teams at Adobe are just
> another developer, in a sense, and they have to interpret the specs like
> everybody else.

	Sorry Glenn, but that's a cop-out.  Adobe has always seems like a
pretty right-kind of company, but statements like the above really get me
going.  As far as the outside world is concerned, Adobe designed the
convention and Adobe wrote Illustrator, i.e. they are an atomic entity.
It's bad enough when vendors point fingers at each other, but when one
group points a finger at another group in the same company, it just doesn't
hack it.  You can work out your internal lack of communication in private,
pointing fingers at each other around the lunch-room table, but don't let
the internal finger pointing ever show outside the company door.

	So, admit that it's a bug (which, if I read you right, you have
already done) and send out updates to everybody who bought copies of the
original program.  One of the reasons I buy software from Adobe is because
I have faith that if anybody can get PostScript-related stuff right, Adobe
can.  Don't let that faith down.  Come back into the fold, Glenn.
-- 
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