![]() ![]() The other is so laughably underpowered that I have zero use for it (a 7200 with a 4GB HD). If I happen to be in the garage I may boot one to use iTunes internet radio, but I'm rarely out there. I have two OS 9 Macs at home, but I rarely use them because I don't need them. Any old games that I have are all DOS/Win95 because I did not become a Mac convert until 2003. I do not wish to contemplate the issues I'd have with Sheepshaver on the MP.Īnd there's no way I am going back to a G4/400 PCI and a G4/450 AGP. Classic on the G5 yes, but that only and only on the G5. There's zero way I could get OS9 working on these two Macs. No Spaces, no integration with our Windows 2003 Small Business Server (HELL no, I am NOT going to install and use Services for Macintosh!!!), no Pitstop Pro, no PDF/X-A:2003, on and on.Īll of that said, the two production Macs are now a MacPro Quad Core Xeon 2.8Ghz with 3GB ram and a PowerMac G5 1.8Ghz with 4GB ram (yeah, the G5 has more than the MP). Setting aside my boss' long ago directive that I keep my employee and myself equal, if I rolled us back (which I could do) I would have no end of complaints from the other person because she could no longer work the way she is used to. In any case, OS 9 and the apps common around 2003 or earlier are just not going to fly here at work. I scared the heck out of the other person (whom I was hired to replace because she was leaving) when I installed and booted into OS X. TBH, when I first got this job the one Mac in the back for Classifieds was running OS9. As I said, I could probably get by, but just no! I get a lot of bad outside PDFs my friend and I need every tool I can use to fix bad work by customers. Illy 10 will run on OS9 and you might scrape by with 8, but if we are really going that route at that point I'd rather just pull out Freehand. You can use 7.5 in 6.0 Pro, but Enfocus is on version 12 I believe now.Īnything less than Illy 9 is also a non-starter. So, Suitcase 9 at least, probably Suitcase 10.Īny version of Acrobat less than 6.0 Pro would not be able to use Enfocus PitStop Pro. It has the VERY BAD habit of using the LAST version of fonts loaded INSTEAD of the fonts you are SPECIFICALLY telling it to load. Use it for anything more and it falls down. ![]() I used ATM ONLY to smooth fonts on screen. No way you could import a PDF in 5.Īs to ATM. Direct PDF exporting didn't come until 7 either and transparency was problematic in 7. I had to rely on third party XTensions to embed fonts in to EPS files up until XPress 7. Quark gave us the ability to output web pages, which is really not useful or helpful when they can't fix or offer other things that relate to print. QXP 6 had it's own issues.Īnd 5 was buggy and problematic. Let me tell you my friend, when the previous version is BETTER than what replaces it then you have a bad release! First and foremost it was never OS X capable. I was part of the QuarkXPress 5 beta program.
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