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