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Article #12280Re: Web Design: Would you design a PDF by writing Postscript in Notepad?
From: Helpful Harry
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:06
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:06
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Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "fgdg" <ilovesanta@lycos.com> writing in news: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. You do realise that software like DreamWeaver, GoLive, Freeway *IS* "Quark Xpress or InDesign for the web"?!?!? People used to create websites solely by typing HTML into a text editor (and many still do). Helpful Harry Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)
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