[softwarelist] Re: Imposition signatures?

In message <466044FD.1020603@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Phillip Marsden <phillip.marsden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> David Pilling wrote:
>> In message <4eebce211cgav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Gavin Crawford
>> <gav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>>> not much on RISC OS though! I guess the time has now passed for the
>>> demand for such specialist software for the RISC OS market.
>>
>>> cheap option I can recommend Quite Imposing and Quite Imposing Plus from
>>> www.quite.com - it works as a plug-in for Adobe Acrobat and offers a
>>
>> Points up some dilemmas for me - in other words one hundredth of the
>> time spent on OP writing a plug in for something else might have
>> produced a more viable product.
> With reference to the other two replies that you have already received.
> These are yet more examples of RISC OS peopel living in Cloud Cuckoo
> Land. You made it quite clear in your comment above that much less time
> spent on a Windows add-on product would have brought in much more than
> the time spent on a RISC OS product. Do these people listen? No, they
> just go into the tired old routine of offering what is (to be frank) a
> ridiculous amount of money. £200? Don't make me laugh! Come into the
> real world. A contract probrammer can earn that much in a DAY quite
> easily (and could do so 10 years ago to my certain knowledge).
> 
> When consumers in the RISC OS world realise what it really costs to
> develop software, they might give up on the eternal "I would give £30
> for this or £50 for that" refrain.Go for the big money in the Windows
> world (or anywhere else) David, and when you are earning a decent living
> please come back and help us out here. This is how most of the RISC OS
> world works at the moment.Few can hope to make a living solely out of
> work done purely for the RISC OS desktop market.

[snip]

Is there not a market for a "turnkey" solution similar to my Panel 
Editor recently featured in Drobe? Bundle an A9 to boot straight into  
OPro, standard output to PDF, as a publisher's or printer's tool?

Charge an _annual_ licence sufficient to make purchasers think they're 
getting something really worth having, 4 or possibly 5 figures, and 
maintenance at 300 a day plus expenses.

Martin

-- 
Martin R. Devon MSc
Consulting Engineer, Box, Wilts, UK
RISC OS in the Timber Frame Housing Industry

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