Gradients in PDFs

[More Sugar]

Again, I _do_ appreciate all your your help. Please don't take it 
personally. I didn't mean to offend. I'm just old-fashioned, I guess, in 
that I expect things to work properly.

As far as trying the beta... (a) it won't really help fix the issue we 
have to deal with on an ongoing basis, and (b) my boss isn't too keen on 
paying me for the time spent doing so. Not to mention, I'm often the 
only one here, so my dance card is already quite full.

Cheers!
Karen



Steve Mills wrote:
> 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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