Re: Web Design: Would you design a PDF by writing Postscript in Notepad?

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From: Harlan Messinger
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:42

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fgdg wrote:
> 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.

Postscript is a page *format* description language. HTML is a page 
*structure* description language.

> 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.
>

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From: Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: Web Design: Would you design a PDF by writing Postscript in Notepad?
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:42:58 -0500
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