Gradients in PDFs

[Steve Mills]

On Jun 26, 2008, at 14:37:39, More Sugar wrote:

> Sorry, Steve, if I sounded pissy. I _do_ appreciate your trying to  
> help. I'm just venting.

Understood.

> It's not just Multi-ad that does this, but it really P's me off. I  
> can understand releasing a new version that adds new _features_, but  
> not a new version that fixes things that should have worked properly  
> in the 1st fracking place.

Because all commercial software vendors are in business to be  
profitable. If we had to look back at each old version when we fix a  
bug to see if the bug exists there as well, then figure out how to fix  
it there (changes since that time might mean large parts of the the  
code is vastly different), then build each version, send them to  
testing for verification, go through beta cycles with each version,  
and finally release them, well, we wouldn't be making any money at all.

And as far as things working correctly in the first place, yes that  
would be incredibly fantastic. But *all* software has bugs. Lots of  
them. Public beta tester are a *huge* help in finding bugs, especially  
in workflows that aren't possible to duplicate in our internal testing  
department. The more people that download and try the betas (not in  
production, or at least keep safe backups of all work) do themselves  
and every one else a big favor by reporting problems, no matter how  
small.

> What If a bought a car, and the brakes didn't work? The company  
> tells me, "thanks for pointing that out, we'll make them work in the  
> next version. Which, BTW, you will have to pay for." Feh.

Page layout software can't endanger your or anyone else's life if a  
gradient looks different in pdf.

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Steve Mills                              Me: 952-401-6255
Senior Software Architect                         MultiAd
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