Images and text are two different communications. The expression "a picture is worth a thousand words" and In like kind "the movie was nothing like the book". Images and text are both information. They are recieved into our brain as representations or tidbits of information and are succinctly compiled and processed as such - seemlessly. - It's why we don't walk into walls. (generally).
Font Folio 1Somewhere between the drawings on the Cave of the Trois-Frères and the inscriptions on the Trajan Column there lies partial evidence of an early inclination towards higher pattern recognition connate to an ability to reason.
A company called Adobe, as commercially prolific and intrinsic to government and national defense as it is today, basically began as an electronic font development company.PostScript - a way of describing how things will appear in print was Adobe's main technology and in tandem with Apple Computer's use of it was catalyzing of the desktop publishing revolution. Adobe Type Manager, the PageMaker aquisition
and the Adobe Marketshare flagship Photoshop are examples of the suite approach taken by Adobe in developing a comprehensive all-In-One solution now known as InDesign CS
'Creative Suite'.
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Adobe's success is due almost entirely to VISION - the realization of visual dynamic/neccesity in acquiring and communicating information.
An upstart company called Quark began more ostensively as a purely page layout/design software company.
The approach taken by Quark was perhaps a bit more utilitarian. It was an interesting and measured response to Aldus PageMaker and the Apple/Postscript driven DPR although perhaps even more an answer to the PC revolution in general. QuarkXPress for a long time enjoyed the lion's share of kudos and cash from typesetting and printing professionals due mostly to it's empowerment through simplicity of working in boxes.
From earliest times (the illuminated manuscript for example) Books and documents were layed out on a 'box within box' type system. Our paper sizes and even web pages use this today. Quark maintained the classical structure and thinking then advanced from there following up consistently with sharp new versions which still place the art of typography in very high esteem. QuarkXpress is no stranger to images and graphics. It utilizes the acclaimed Pantone Color Matching System to give ultimate controls to the user.
The inviting of third parties to develop cool new features which enhance the main QuarkXpress schema was a major move -in both marketing, artistic and historical terms. It is the theme now running throughout openscource and ...
GIMP. GIMP stands for 'GNU Image Manipulation Program' It is just as the name implies - a mainly image manipulation program. It began as a college project at the University of California, Berkley. Like all Gimp uses layers,vector/graphic lines and the ability to import (and through freely available third-party plugins) export to the major file formats in use today across the digital/internet spectrum.
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Gimp is a free openscource response to photoshop with an intent to be more versitile just as Quarkxpress was a response to PageMaker with gearings going towards the latest image and graphic rendering and manipulation The program is capable of using Opentype fonts for display.
As we see today, there were many different musings on the part of major software technology companies as they looked towards the future of the digital revolution, which when combined with marketing pressures and strategies have brought us to a place and point in the state of the art where output and imput environment - is EVERYTHING!!!
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The Operating System plays no small role in this. Enters and all the while, a little company called the Microsoft Corporation.
Talk about utilitarian!
None the less despite Microsoft's early success as IBM minion and their subsequent, clever marketing/maneuvering gyrations and bumpy navigations from that point, Microsoft managed to focus on being the best, most efficient and user friendly computer operating system on the planet.
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Through a synthesis or sometimes seemingly a 'reverse osmosis' of buying/aquiring and genuine innovation, Microsoft sought to provide only the most pertainent capabilities to the average pc user. A full fledged program (at that time)called Paint was as basic as one could get and yet was a commensurate reply to Apple offerings at the time.
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In the spirit of QuarkXpress's XTensions and the applied freeware/GNU response of GIMP to photoshop, Microsoft funded a project based upon their .NET programming backdrop called Paint.NET.
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Paint.NET began began also as a college Student project at Washington State University. As GIMP was a freeware attempt at equalling Photoshop capabilities, Paint.NET was an attempt at accentuating the capabilities of Microsoft's rudimentary Paint program using the .net platform.
Like Jarte improves word processing over WordPad, people like Paint.NET because it
succeeds in the area of image and graphic rendering and manipulation over and above MSPaint -(as it was intended to). It is a powerful vehicle for web graphics and is full of cool plugin image/graphic manipulation endowments as well as importing and saving options (such as PSD -PhotoShop Document) as well as it's own version of saving as layers(PDN). Like GIMP Paint.NET has a strong user community but despite it's third party development capabilities it currently falls short of any full featured document or quality print capabilities (comparatively).
Paint.NET is based on Raster (bitmap) graphics with inclusion of object-oriented features where as GIMP is Vector Graphics driven and althogh postumously, - fully object oriented. There are a number of effects/plugins included in Paint.net which when used appropriately relieve the fundamental disadvantages of the bitmap conundrum.
Next Article: AIO - 'Depth of a Salesman'.
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'Creative Suite'.
Font Folio 11Adobe's success is due almost entirely to VISION - the realization of visual dynamic/neccesity in acquiring and communicating information.
An upstart company called Quark began more ostensively as a purely page layout/design software company.
The approach taken by Quark was perhaps a bit more utilitarian. It was an interesting and measured response to Aldus PageMaker and the Apple/Postscript driven DPR although perhaps even more an answer to the PC revolution in general. QuarkXPress for a long time enjoyed the lion's share of kudos and cash from typesetting and printing professionals due mostly to it's empowerment through simplicity of working in boxes.
From earliest times (the illuminated manuscript for example) Books and documents were layed out on a 'box within box' type system. Our paper sizes and even web pages use this today. Quark maintained the classical structure and thinking then advanced from there following up consistently with sharp new versions which still place the art of typography in very high esteem. QuarkXpress is no stranger to images and graphics. It utilizes the acclaimed Pantone Color Matching System to give ultimate controls to the user.
The inviting of third parties to develop cool new features which enhance the main QuarkXpress schema was a major move -in both marketing, artistic and historical terms. It is the theme now running throughout openscource and ...
GIMP. GIMP stands for 'GNU Image Manipulation Program' It is just as the name implies - a mainly image manipulation program. It began as a college project at the University of California, Berkley. Like all Gimp uses layers,vector/graphic lines and the ability to import (and through freely available third-party plugins) export to the major file formats in use today across the digital/internet spectrum.
Font Folio 11Gimp is a free openscource response to photoshop with an intent to be more versitile just as Quarkxpress was a response to PageMaker with gearings going towards the latest image and graphic rendering and manipulation The program is capable of using Opentype fonts for display.
As we see today, there were many different musings on the part of major software technology companies as they looked towards the future of the digital revolution, which when combined with marketing pressures and strategies have brought us to a place and point in the state of the art where output and imput environment - is EVERYTHING!!!
Font Folio 11The Operating System plays no small role in this. Enters and all the while, a little company called the Microsoft Corporation.
Talk about utilitarian!
None the less despite Microsoft's early success as IBM minion and their subsequent, clever marketing/maneuvering gyrations and bumpy navigations from that point, Microsoft managed to focus on being the best, most efficient and user friendly computer operating system on the planet.
Font Folio 11Through a synthesis or sometimes seemingly a 'reverse osmosis' of buying/aquiring and genuine innovation, Microsoft sought to provide only the most pertainent capabilities to the average pc user. A full fledged program (at that time)called Paint was as basic as one could get and yet was a commensurate reply to Apple offerings at the time.
Font Folio 11In the spirit of QuarkXpress's XTensions and the applied freeware/GNU response of GIMP to photoshop, Microsoft funded a project based upon their .NET programming backdrop called Paint.NET.
Font Folio 11Paint.NET began began also as a college Student project at Washington State University. As GIMP was a freeware attempt at equalling Photoshop capabilities, Paint.NET was an attempt at accentuating the capabilities of Microsoft's rudimentary Paint program using the .net platform.
Like Jarte improves word processing over WordPad, people like Paint.NET because it
succeeds in the area of image and graphic rendering and manipulation over and above MSPaint -(as it was intended to). It is a powerful vehicle for web graphics and is full of cool plugin image/graphic manipulation endowments as well as importing and saving options (such as PSD -PhotoShop Document) as well as it's own version of saving as layers(PDN). Like GIMP Paint.NET has a strong user community but despite it's third party development capabilities it currently falls short of any full featured document or quality print capabilities (comparatively).
Paint.NET is based on Raster (bitmap) graphics with inclusion of object-oriented features where as GIMP is Vector Graphics driven and althogh postumously, - fully object oriented. There are a number of effects/plugins included in Paint.net which when used appropriately relieve the fundamental disadvantages of the bitmap conundrum.
Next Article: AIO - 'Depth of a Salesman'.
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