@dogwelder yeah, it's a photoshop thing, so not my jam.
@ardgedee managed to avoid it completely, I'm glad to say. Every prepress place I worked had a separation guy. They did great work, but every last one of them was mad as a box of frogs
@scruss We were using digital imagesetters (that weird historical interlude between photo-typesetting and desktop publishing, so we were still building pages by hand using x-acto knives and hot wax) that would output color photos from the wire services in CMYK separations for us. Usually all we had to do was put a knockout in the negative where the color photo would go and attach the seps, and the press crew burned the plates. I was never clear on exactly how they did those to get them aligned -- I had to stay in prepress handling late editions while they were doing setup and early runs, otherwise I could've asked to watch.
Advertisements were purely the domain of prepress though -- we were property of the ad department, not editorial -- so on the rare day we had a color ad to run, we had to do the separations by hand. Acetate is so slippery when you need accuracy in micrometers.
@danelectro it does sterling backend work in OS X printing system as well as CUPS on Linux. It may also be the PDF backend in That Brother Printer That Everyone Buys
@danelectro I can imagine Jobs personally demanding Ghostscript in OSX just to flip off Adobe.
Vaguely recall a news article (or at least trade gossip) around the time Apple and NeXT merged to the effect that Adobe was making more in profit than NeXT from NeXT OS licenses.
@scruss I don't think OSX has any DPS in it, it uses Quartz which Apple built in-house. The Quartz API might be derived from DPS's to make the transition easier though.
@ardgedee managed to avoid it completely, I'm glad to say. Every prepress place I worked had a separation guy. They did great work, but every last one of them was mad as a box of frogs
Advertisements were purely the domain of prepress though -- we were property of the ad department, not editorial -- so on the rare day we had a color ad to run, we had to do the separations by hand. Acetate is so slippery when you need accuracy in micrometers.
Vaguely recall a news article (or at least trade gossip) around the time Apple and NeXT merged to the effect that Adobe was making more in profit than NeXT from NeXT OS licenses.
especially because my last intentional use of ghostcript was creating postscript versions of windows specific email attachments to reply back with