PCI USB Card for Classic Mac

If you bought a PCI USB card plug into your classic mac - PCI based Macintosh : 7200, 7300, 8500, 8600, 9500 or 9600. You need to download this : USB_Card_Support_1.4.1 from Apple site to make it work. It will support USB 1.1 based mouse, mass storage, printer etc.
当您买PCI卡时, 看清楚其CHIPSET. 有些没有支持的. :)

Adobe Pushes DNG Image Format

Many photographers work in Raw-format files from their digital cameras and are frustrated by the many versions out there—varying not just from manufacturer to manufacturer but also from camera to camera. But Adobe is trying to solve that problem with its Digital Negative Specification.

Adobe Systems Inc. in September 2004 introduced DNG, a public format for Raw digital camera files, along with a free software tool, Adobe DNG Converter, which translates many of the Raw photo formats (images before any in-camera processing) used today into the new DNG file format.

Adobe is also letting any manufacturer that wants to use the format in its cameras, printers and software applications do that for free without any limitations in the hopes of encouraging them to accept it as the standard.

Shooting Raw images means photographers can avoid dealing with the compression and loss of image quality involved with shooting JPEGs. But with that change comes the problem that Adobe has addressed: Each manufacturer uses a proprietary format that is specific to its cameras and might not be compatible with Adobe's Photoshop or other editing software.

The Digital Negative Specification, Adobe hopes, will become the single format, allowing users to store information from a diverse range of cameras.

The DNG Specification now gives photographers the ability to embed the original image within the DNG file format directly from the Adobe DNG Converter so that any Raw image, no matter the camera it came from, would end up as a DNG file.

Professional photographers generally prefer to store Raw files in long-term image archives, because—unlike standard JPEG and TIFF images—these files represent the pure, unaltered shot. Because Raw formats are tied to specific camera models, it could mean that particular format would not be supported over time, according to Adobe.

The Digital Negative Specification is based on the TIFF EP format that is already the basis of many proprietary raw formats. The technology behind the DNG format lies in a set of metadata that must be included in the file to describe key details about the camera and settings. DNG-compliant software and hardware can adapt to handle new cameras as they are introduced. DNG is also flexible enough to allow camera manufacturers to continue to add their own "private" metadata fields.

The Digital Negative Specification is being posted to the Adobe Web site, and is free of any legal restrictions or royalties, enabling integration of the DNG file format into digital cameras, printers and software products. DNG format is also supported in Adobe Photoshop CS as part of an updated Camera Raw Plug-in, also now available. Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 also supports DNG files.

S.E.A. NET: 看了这篇报道后, 可看出Adobe的苦心和野心. 这是Adobe在PS(Postscript)到PDF后的一个重大的佈暑. 一旦DNG成为标准后, 一众各大厂商可要服首称臣了. 哈哈哈, 像不像商业始皇帝?

Sending Files to Your ColorSEP (Service Bureau)

When you send a digital file out for film or printing more goes along than just your InDesign or QuarkXPress document. You may need to send fonts and graphics too.

Usually your ColorSEP or printer will ask you to send:

Application

• Be sure your ColorSEP or printer has the same software, same version.
• If you've upgraded before your ColorSEP or printer, you may have to 'save down' your file to the version they use.
• Insure that the shop can handle files from your platform.
• Few ColorSEP or printer accept Microsoft Publisher (.pub) files or files from anything other than the Adobe programs, QuarkXPress, Corel, and etc. Ask first.

Fonts

• Send both screen and printer fonts.
• If you have embedded EPS files that include text not converted to curves, send the fonts for those images as well.
• You could embed all your fonts or convert text to curves to avoid having to send font files.
• Send the same version of the font (that is, if you used TrueType fonts but send the Type 1 version of that typeface you may see errors).

Graphics

• Convert RGB images to CMYK.
• Don't change graphics file names unless you first re-link them in your application file.
• In some instances your ColorSEP or printer may want you to also send original format graphics (Freehand, Illustrator, Photoshop files) in addition to the placed EPS/TIFF images in your page layout application — for troubleshooting purposes. Ask them.

Electronic Transmission

• Some ColorSEP or printers will accept files as email attachments or by FTP or AFP (Appleshare) over the Internet. You find it necessary to compress files into an archive files first to speed the file transfer.