Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site fear.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!pesnta!amd!amdcad!cae780!weitek!fear!robert From: robert@fear.UUCP (Robert Plamondon) Newsgroups: net.text Subject: Re: embedded-command text systems Message-ID: <301@fear.UUCP> Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 15:34:09 EST Article-I.D.: fear.301 Posted: Thu Dec 5 15:34:09 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Dec-85 04:34:42 EST References: <471@harvard.ARPA> <773@mmintl.UUCP> <734@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> <1919@glacier.ARPA> Distribution: net Organization: Weitek Corp. Sunnyvale Ca. Lines: 31 In article <1919@glacier.ARPA>, reid@glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid) writes: > I claim that, for a wide range of publications, the traditional graphic-arts > industry approach of cutting, pasting, and wysiwyg systems simply cannot be > competitive with more software-intensive approaches such as embedded-command > systems. You will be trading one programmer for 4 graphic artists. > [...] > Simultaneously, however, > thousands of businesses are discovering that they don't NEED the graphic > arts industry. With simple computer tools they can achieve their end > results--the publication of books or newsletters or catalogs--without > graphic artists. It's true that any idiot can now put together an ugly book, an incompetently-laid-out newsletter, or a shoddy catalog with the use of computer tools. Most of us have probably seen what happens when people with no concept of layout start using Macs with laser printers -- garish, ugly, and ultimately ineffective copy. While competent layout isn't all THAT difficult, it helps to have it done by someone who knows what he's doing. Most programmers can't even write, let alone take words and pictures and do something useful with them. The graphics art industry will remain alive and well, because there's more to the business than mechanical cutting and pasting. -- Robert Plamondon UUCP: {turtlevax, resonex, cae780}!weitek!robert FidoNet: 10/624 robert plamondon