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Article #12246Re: Web Design: Would you design a PDF by writing Postscript in Notepad?
From: TaliesinSoft
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:19
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:19
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:10:25 -0600, fgdg wrote (in article <1171555825.536750.285310@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com>): > Why do we put up with web design software? Nobody makes a PDFs by > writing Postscript in Notepad, but that is what designer's working for > the web are expected to do. That is how far web design has come. > Postscript is a page description language like HTML or CSS. By now we > should have a Quark Xpress or Indesign for the web, but the only > morsel the software industry has thrown designers after a decade of > the web is CSS coding and a choice of Georgia or verdana. It's beyond > the joke. There is indeed software, available now for the Macintosh, that allows one to construct a website using WYSIWYG methods and with no requirement that the user should have any knowledge of such as HTML. That software is Freeway Express and Freeway Pro. Freeway works much like InDesign in that the website author concentrates on appearance and action and not upon the underlying code that makes things happen. As an aside, the resulting HTML of a Freeway generated website is quite good, usually passing the strictest of code verification. -- James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@mac.com
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From: TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Web Design: Would you design a PDF by writing Postscript in Notepad?
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:19:44 -0600
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