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Any chance you could ping my company and convince them to dump the Macs they make us use.

Since you seem to be the only one in the world with problems such as you describe... especially in areas the Mac excels in, graphics... I think the problem probably exists in the loose nut on the keyboard, not inside the Mac.

It is strange that every other Mac user in the publishing business is NOT experiencing the "crashes" that you claim.

You still haven't answered my questions... "What MODEL Mac are you running?"... and "How much memory does it have?" ... and "What version of OSX?" ... "Have you reloaded your Font collection from known GOOD sources... or are you still using a collection of amateur fonts?"

The last time you wouldn't answer questions it turned out you were still running OS9... and complaining about OSX crashing. Now that you have upgraded to OSX, I want to know if the management of your company also bothered to upgrade the hardware to run it... or are you still working on a 1998 iMac?

To all you mac users who think a crash is only defined by a blue screen, the proper definition of a crash is if you lose your unsaved work due to a program freeze up.

By the way, BJung, Mac's don't "Blue screen"... that only happens on older PCs.

It is strange that every other Mac user in the publishing business is NOT experiencing the "crashes" that you claim.

Then why are many publishing businesses switching away from Macs? We covered this before - we did a national training conference. The guy at the paper that put it on was using a PC. A group still using MAC asked him about a problem. When it all got sorted out, one of the other locations said they had that problem also until they got rid of the Macs.

Live in a cave if you want to. Go ahead, shoot the messenger if it makes you feel better. One day, though, you will finally get around to answering the question, what is the need for a Mac when a PC will do the same job with far less expense and far fewer conflicts with the rest of the world?

Do you really think that any advantage a Mac might have is going to be noticed in publication graphics. Get real. Maybe back in the early 90's when there was a detectable graphics difference between the two systems. But not today.

YOu could not tell the difference between art produced on a Mac or a PC when that art hits the finished product. Again, answering the question would show you to be operating on more than just emotion.

By the way, BJung, Mac's don't "Blue screen"... that only happens on older PCs. You did not read carefully. I said, to all the Mac users that think a crash only happens when you see a blue screen (obviously on a PC), you need to learn the proper definition of a crash. A crash is when you lose data.

Do you agree with that statement?

FRegards,