![]() ![]() The Suite's focus on the Page is, in fact, a focus on the Document. Today the Web hosts over 165 million PDFs and the format has been extended with XML schemas to create intelligent documents. And they did it with a versatile cross-platform model that can be viewed on screen, on the Web or printed. ![]() With the development of the PostScript language into the Portable Document Format in 1993, Adobe extended its vision from imaging to document creation, from rasters to data. Berthold, Linotype, Merganthaler, Compugraphic and Addressograph evolved from the behemoth's of the printing industry into dinosaurs in the PostScript age. PostScript, Adobe's non-proprietary page description language, had become the standard. The cost of producing high-quality, printed material has dropped substantially." "The major type libraries are becoming available in PostScript-compatible formats. "Today all major computer, printer and imagesetter vendors support the PostScript language as a standard," the preface's authors observed. When it was introduced in 1985, Adobe's PostScript programming language entered a world where "there were no effective page-description standards, popular typefaces were used only with specific typesetting equipment, producing high-quality visual materials was restricted to specialists and the cost of producing most corporate communication pieces was prohibitive," as John Warnock and Chuck Geschke wrote in the preface to the 1990 PostScript Language Reference Manual.īut in just five years the proprietary world of the publishing industry was transformed by PostScript. And central to this concept of pages is Adobe's PDF document model.įROM POSTSCRIPT TO PDF | Back to Contents There are pages on the Web, pages in our documents, pages in print. If you're looking for either of those, the Suite won't help.Īnd (we smile conspiratorially), there's no escaping the Page. Video production is missing, as is slide show production. The Suite can take you from producing prints in Photoshop using Bridge for browsing and even batch editing your images to constructing pages for either print, the Web or the screen (including the screens of mobile devices). It was preceded by our review of Bridge ( ) and Photoshop ( ). So we're concluding our three-part review of CS2 with this look at using the Suite on real projects. How does it change what you do, what you can do, when you match Photoshop with InDesign, Illustrator, GoLive and Acrobat Pro? The Imaging Resource Digital Photography Newsletterīecause of, rather than despite, our focus on imaging, we've wanted to review the entire Creative Suite since we started using it. SUITE PROJECTS Adobe CS2 - Running the Suite By MIKE PASINI ![]()
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