[thelist] Image ready 3 on mac waaaaay slow?

[aardvark]

> From: "Annie Rex" <arex at BaseSix.com>
>
> So I guess list admins are the only ones allowed to slam a product set on
> "thelist?"

wow... no... and my status as an admin had nothing to do with my 
post... and anyone can slam a product here... in fact, we kind of 
enjoy it... it makes us feel pretty...

> And, no, I didn't mean anything other than what I had said. Adobe has a weak
> product set when it comes to designing for the web - the problem with the
> tool is the tool.

i don't agree with that... given what PS was designed to be (a tool 
for print), vs. what they are trying to make it (a tool for print *and* 
web), i think they've done well... granted, it's taken them a while to 
get rolling, but PS is a product designed to a whole lotta stuff... i 
would highly doubt you'll be using CMYK mode, for instance, for 
any of your web work, but they day you get asked to make that 
cool graphic into a TIFF for the brochure, you'll be glad you can...

of course, i have a background in photo manipulation, print, and 
multimedia, even before there was a web, so i've grown quite 
accustomed to it and find it to be very robust...

i'm not slamming FW, either... there's no reason to, it's a great 
product that we use along with IR/PS... but some of your 
arguments were more of a qualitative response than a quantitative 
one... and it didn't address the fundamental question of the post -- 
why is IR slow?