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Originally Posted by Ankh
I seriously doubt that Microsoft's "death grip" still exists. And it is not OpenOffice that won that "format war". Adobe's PDF did. For every document that leaves the door of the corporation. Its been a long, long time that I've received word document or found one on a corporate web site.
Microsoft Office is still widely used, no doubt about it. But now it is somehow degraded to ... the internal choice of each and every corporation. PDF is Lingua franca, the "corporate format".
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I often receive Word documents from clients to work with, but what about PowerPoint? I was actually referring more to what is used internally, as that is what you do your work on. Are you going to fight crappy formatting for years on those days when you have to take work home, just to save (your company) a hundred dollars? Do you expect a large amount of others to perform the same?
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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
I very much disagree with your characterization of GIMP2 (the current
version). While it works for the most part in sRGB, it does have a CMYK
profile, in its color management function. It handles layers and channels
quite well in fact. I haven't had an occasion to try layered tifs, but have
very often used layered psds, created in GIMP2 for DVD authoring menu
components. I'm not sure what "RAW formats" you are referring to, but
GIMP2 has handled all the common formats that I've had any occasion to
feed it. It does work with files, so the photo needs to have been digitized,
if that is your complaint.
I am sure that there are some things that the very expensive Adobe
product can do that the free GIMP2 can't, but very few of them would
be things that the noncommercial user actually has a need for.
Luck;
Ken
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The CMYK in the GIMP is still rudimentary, and not acceptable for professional printing. I still have PSDs from PS/CS2 that don't show up correctly in the GIMP, mainly because of screwed up filters and gradients. RAW formats are the native file format that a camera shoots in, which almost all professional photographers use until they get into Photoshop, so as not to lose any bits. Seeing as GIMP is opensource and free, they can't support every iteration of RAW for each and every camera, but this also means they're pretty useless for those that shoot for a living.
I want to clarify that I run Linux and use the GIMP and OpenOffice for home use, but I am not blinded to the fact that these are hobby quality programs. If I need professional output in the least amount of time, I use Microsoft products because of interoperability.