Leopard and CS3 and Quark and more...

[bvalen]

Don,

I like the way you think.
I would love to try what you propose below. One box does ALL. That,
my friend, is a real SOLUTION. I also believe that it
is the best way to proceed. No more jumping around from computer to
computer, which is what we now do, as well.
The only way to get started is just like you said in your last email
to me; wait until after Macworld conference, get them to get the
latest box for your department and slowly work your way into loading
and testing the thing, but, at the same time, keep your old systems
on line to do the REAL work until such time that you are confident
that you can make all of the new stuff work to your satisfaction.
Hey, that's all the fun anyway. New stuff to try to keep the mind
sharp.
Not too bad.

cheers,

Bruce

[disbellj]

Bruce,

This is an old thread, but wanted to say I've got everything working on my new Mac Pro 8-core (everything except Pagemaker, since I can't use Classic apps without installing SheepShaver).

My old Mac (finally) died, got a new one, and have been able to also retire multiple physical Windows machines, since they are now virtualized on my Mac. So I now have one Mac that runs it all basically (all except Pagemaker , and I also didn't virtualize the Windows machine hooked up to the platesetter physically), and one backup Mac. The backup Mac will be replaced by a new Mac Pro when it dies, and new machine will be loaded with Parallels, OS and Parallels fully updated, and be able to run the whole department virtually hopefully. Note: I haven't virtualized Mac OS X yet, and will need a Server version to do it, but I hope to virtualize my Mac production machine, so that all is virtiualized and can be backed up by backing up one file (like I do the Windows machines now).

Regards,

Don

Don,

I like the way you think.
I would love to try what you propose below. One box does ALL. That,
my friend, is a real SOLUTION. I also believe that it
is the best way to proceed. No more jumping around from computer to
computer, which is what we now do, as well.
The only way to get started is just like you said in your last email
to me; wait until after Macworld conference, get them to get the
latest box for your department and slowly work your way into loading
and testing the thing, but, at the same time, keep your old systems
on line to do the REAL work until such time that you are confident
that you can make all of the new stuff work to your satisfaction.
Hey, that's all the fun anyway. New stuff to try to keep the mind
sharp.
Not too bad.

cheers,

Bruce

[semi-tech]

I have found that, going to Leopard from Tiger, I cannot print to Xante 4G or our Konica Minolta machine. It seems that the new OS rewrote the PPDs into Unix files. I'm attempting to find a solution.

[Hopkins Printing]

Going from Tiger to Leopard did provide some benefits but also some GRRRRR's. Most of the GRRRRR's were solvable though. CS3 - CS5 works fine (we discontinued CS2).

Here are some gotcha's that I remember...

1. Quark 6.x does not play well with Leopard. Open a Quark file, make some changes, save and close it. Now, double-click the file again to open it. Instead of it opening, it duplicates itself in the Finder. How's that for weird. The Step and Repeat dialog box doesn't display properly either but is useable.

2. Because I build my "master" on an external drive and then clone to my workstations, I named the external drive, "Master" (the computer name, not the name of the drive). After cloning, I simply changed the computer name in the Sharing system preference on the workstation but found that the new name didn't stick in the host configuration file which caused problems with my Apogee client. Manually editing the host config file in Terminal to reflect the new name fixed it.

I personally miss Tiger as I found it to be pretty stable. Leopard...eh. I have no plans to upgrade to Snow Leopard just yet and now we have Lion on the horizon...oh my!

BTW, I saw virtualization mentioned. For virtualizing your Windows OS's on a Mac, give VirtualBox a try: www.virtualbox.org. FREE, easy to use, and in my opinion, works pretty well!

Cheers,
Jon Morgan
Hopkins Printing

[semi-tech]

I'm going to see about getting our Macs back to Tiger. The CS4 software works with it, as does Quark 8. Plus, I'd think we could reinstall the appropriate printer drivers for our Xante and Konica. We need to be able to print to that Konica.

[Hopkins Printing]

Hi semi-tech,

We have a Konica c65hc with a rip on its front end. We send PDF to it via hot folder. Can you use hot folder?

Just a thought...

Cheers,
Jon

[semi-tech]

Hi semi-tech,

We have a Konica c65hc with a rip on its front end. We send PDF to it via hot folder. Can you use hot folder?

Just a thought...

Cheers,
Jon

We print over a network to a folder on the Konica itself (a 1050), which is the way we were set up here. I'm not sure if the hot folder idea would work assuming it's possible to set it up, as this is the public sector and it takes interminable effort to get things sometimes and I don't have a lot of say in some things. It's a good thought, though. Maybe I should find out more about the setup, as I had nothing to do with the installation.