[thelist] [OT] upgrading Mac from OS9 to OSX, thoughts?

[Gregory Wostrel]

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Hi Chris,

The Cube wil handle OSX just fine. Make sure that you have maxed out
the ram just to be safe. X likes plenty of it. Install OSX 10.2, don't
be afraid! Follow Apple's install directions carefully regarding
upgrading the system and all.

Distiller works just fine in Classic mode. Quark simply is a pain in
the ass in Classic. However, InDesign works great in X and allows you
to export to PDF with all the options that Distiller gives you and you
can open up Quark files with no problem (generally). Also, you can
generate PDF's on the fly from ANY other OSX app without using
Distiller at all, so what is the big problem?

I say, go for it.

Greg Wostrel

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On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at 04:08  PM, Chris W. Parker wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: matt s. [mailto:mspiegler at lightbulbpress.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 9:51 AM
>> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>> Subject: Re: [thelist] [OT] upgrading Mac from OS9 to OSX, thoughts?
>>
>>
>> what kind of Mac do you have? I've heard that pre-G3's can
>> run into big
>> trouble, and even the early G3's can be sluggish with OSX.
>
> it's a cube, but it came out when the cube was new. so i'm pretty sure
> that makes it a G3.
>
> geoff mentioned that quarkxpress doesn't work with osx, and although
> we've got version 5 (which might work, if geoff was referring to
> version
> 4) we also need adobe distiller to work. and he says that doesn't. so
> it
> looks like we'll just upgrade to the latest version of 9. (of course
> going in order of all the previous updates.)
>
> any suggestions or comments about doing those upgrades?
>
>
> thanks,
> chris.
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