As I sit here trying to write a brief blog about Steve Jobs, I'm trying to fathom the incalculable debt I owe him and remembering some of my own design- and computer-related histories. Back in the day someone might announce, "Whoever goes to Charette, we need knockout paper and coated Pantone paper." And later on sitting at an Apple computer in my first ever computer layout class, PageMaker, and saying to the instructor, "These look like Pantone colours!" and she replied, "They are Pantone colours!"
These days a lot of my life is a pastiche of Adobe software and Mac computers. I'm typing this at my iMac with OS Snow Leopard and just whipped out the mini-memorial graphic in Adobe InDesign. When I'm working in InDesign, I can choose the image alias to display as typical, as high quality or as "fast"--fast looks like that familiar old-time ruby red knockout!
Right now I can say no more, except to offer gratitude and thanks and to look forward to Apple's technological future that never would have been possible if not for Steve Jobs. Thanks, Steve, thank you Apple, hello again, World!
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