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This is undoubtedly spot-on. I saw this happen with print design. Many job categories like typesetting, pasteup, layout, archiving, plate production, and other

This is undoubtedly spot-on. I saw this happen with print design. Many job categories like typesetting, pasteup, layout, archiving, plate production, and other prepress and press work simply WENT AWAY as pages were designed on-screen and spit out of printers. At first, there was great resistance and many cries of "It's not as good!," which were, of course, true. But it didn't matter. Desktop publishing as it was called (now something your child does in elementary school) was good enough and opened the door to many uses of "the press" which were simply unaffordable before. The same is coming for media production.

pessimizer 4y ago
> This is undoubtedly spot-on. I saw this happen with print design. Many job categories like typesetting, pasteup, layout, archiving, plate production, and other prepress and press work simply WENT AWAY as pages were designed on-screen and spit out of printers. I think people who have seen this process in print and are aware of it have a sharply different view of the potential of this then people who haven't. Seeing the amount of skill, knowledge and practice accumulated over decades by pressmen and prepress/typesetters; all of that is almost worthless now. And by that, I mean it pays nothing, and you're competing with everybody who is "pretty good at Illustrator and InDesign."