OT: Nothing of real value (was Re: filePro upgrades (was Re: Encrypting credit card data))

[Kroboth, Joe]

	> Good point, to some CS "is" their bread and butter and without it they 
	> would not have the means to operate their business.  I doubt anybody 
	> could say that without OG they could not operate their business.  OG has 

	I doubt anyone could honestly say the same of CS4 either.  There are
	alternatives.

Mark,

There are no real good substitutes for adobe products in commercial printing (once they bought macromedia it was all over.) I wasted years of my life trying to find alternatives. I believe for web design there are probably tons of alternatives.  

CMYK + SPOT printing is a different animal than RGB screen stuff. We have to deal with trapping, knockouts, overprints, spot colors, moiré patterns, bleeds, super blacks, screen angles, rosette types, total ink coverage, duotones, font licensing, effective resolutions,  etc. 

What is helping the industry is that abode opened up the PDF format to open standards last July.

Joe