McIlroy--Managing Mixed Platforms

The second approach was to look at issues that were specific only to mixed-platform publishing, and to examine them in detail. I opted for the latter approach.

What lessons emerged from the conference?

The first lesson is that there are indeed a range of problems and challenges that are very specific to mixed-platform publishing, and that those issues need to be addressed independently of other production problems. In the most extreme case, issues of moving fonts and graphics between Macintosh and Windows computers are anything but seamless and automatic. The problems are definable, but they are also numerous, and somewhat complex.