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Started by Martin David Frankel
Thu, 16 Apr 1992 01:25
Re: PixelMagician ships !!!
Author: Martin David Frankel
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 01:25
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 01:25
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 15-Apr-92 Re: PixelMagician
ships !!! by Todd M. Swan@twins.lanl.
>Am I the only one that thinks this is incredibly overpriced? It's only a
>viewer and converter right? It would be worth that for an *editor*. Not to
>mention the fact nearly all these conversions can be done with stuff that is
>free from the net. The $99 student price seems like it should be the list
>price.
>
>Just my $.02...
>
>Todd
What makes this even more ironic is that the free converters that Todd
is referring to happen to provide the basic functionality for of
PixelMagician.
They are from the PBMPLUS package written by Jeff Posansker.
So PixelMagician is, at $299, basically a NeXTstep app wrapper for PBMPLUS.
Disclaimer: I don't have access to my computer at the moment to check
all of this (dead keyboard). It is what I remember from looking at the
demo of PixelMagician and at PBMPLUS. I probably at the very least
misspelled Jeff's name. But this I am quite sure of: the basic modules
used by PixelMagician are from the public domain.
-- Martin
Re: PixelMagician ships !!!
Author: Joseph Chin
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 05:49
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 05:49
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In article <odvBRui00WBK49xdYr@andrew.cmu.edu> mf3s+@andrew.cmu.edu (Martin David Frankel) writes: > ... > So PixelMagician is, at $299, basically a NeXTstep app wrapper for > PBMPLUS. > ... That may very well be the case. But lets not forget that for $299, you get a fairly nice GUI front end (PBMPLUS is something only a commandline hacker would love :-) which makes the software very easy to use, and you also get a commitment by Bacchus to support the product. For many, that is not a high price to pay for something that will help them get works done without having to learn a bunch a command line parameters (or having to work from the command line for that matter). If you don't like the price and you are happy with PBMPLUS, no one is forcing you to pay $299 for a copy of PixelMagician. Joe Disclaimer: I have no affiliation whatsoever with Bacchus. I am not even a customer (yet). However, I have tried the PixelMagician demo and chatted with the nice people from Bacchus at NeXTworld Expo '92. -- | Joseph Chin ** jchin@wcraft.wimsey.bc.ca ** NeXTmail welcome | | +1-604-879-6830 phone ** +1-604-879-9687 fax | | Frame-authorized consultant**NeRD**The Wordcraft Group | |Vancouver NeXT Users Society director***Olympic Tornado sailor|
Re: PixelMagician ships !!!
Author: J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 06:32
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 06:32
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Also, I was told by someone at NeXT as well as reading on this group that ImageViewer (an app that does similar things in terms of converting from one picture type to another) will be made obsolete by v3.0 NeXTstep. If this is so, why should anyone get this program if they're also upgrading to 3.0? -- -- Jeff (jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu) -- NeXTmail not accepted
Re: PixelMagician ships !!!
Author: Ali Ozer
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 18:46
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 18:46
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In article <1992Apr16.063210.4999@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >Also, I was told by someone at NeXT as well as reading on this group >that ImageViewer (an app that does similar things in terms of >converting from one picture type to another) will be made obsolete by >v3.0 NeXTstep. >If this is so, why should anyone get this program if they're also >upgrading to 3.0? 3.0 does not come with any image filters. 3.0 comes with the ability to run filters to automatically convert file types when importing. In fact, because of this feature, I think the market for applications like PixelMagician will even be bigger. (I should add that I haven't had the chance to play with PixelMagician yet...) Ali, Ali_Ozer@NeXT.com
Re: PixelMagician ships !!!
Author: Tyler S Gingrich
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 19:53
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 19:53
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In article <3579@rosie.NeXT.COM> aozer@next.com (Ali Ozer) writes: >In article <1992Apr16.063210.4999@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >>Also, I was told by someone at NeXT as well as reading on this group >>that ImageViewer (an app that does similar things in terms of >>converting from one picture type to another) will be made obsolete by >>v3.0 NeXTstep. >>If this is so, why should anyone get this program if they're also >>upgrading to 3.0? > >3.0 does not come with any image filters. 3.0 comes with the ability to >run filters to automatically convert file types when importing. In fact, >because of this feature, I think the market for applications like >PixelMagician will even be bigger. (I should add that I haven't had the >chance to play with PixelMagician yet...) > Hopefully, the guys from Baccus will unbundle their converters & sell them as 3.0 filters. In addition to selling the whole PixelMagician package. --- Tyler Gingrich (614)292-7211 tyler+@osu.edu
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