No, OS10.2 and they have cleaned up the fonts. The issue of the Mac not being able to handle fonts is behind us thanfully. If ever we get a font with client art that the Mac can't deal with, I just dump the ad into photoshop, flaten it, drop it in and move on. Text gets rasterized and looks worse but who has time to fix it (Mac quality?)
No matter the source of the particular problem of the moment on the Mac, though, the point is that when a Mac crashes you lose all your work. Something that does not seem to happen on a PC running XP.
It will make you happy, perhaps, to hear that I have found something I like better about a Mac: The menu bar that remain at the top of the screen and merely changes depending on what program is opened. And other than the problems it has with crashing/data loss, the Mac works.
Good to hear from you again. FReepRegards!
Good for you, although you may want to think about an upgrade. 10.2 is really the minimum version of OS X to be using to do any work. It's kind of like using Windows XP SP1.
The issue of the Mac not being able to handle fonts is behind us thanfully.
Actually, that's the issue of corrupt fonts ruining your system, although OS 9 got hit bad because of its ancient unreliable design, somewhere around Windows 95 technology (which, BTW, heavy Photoshop use would regularly make unstable, several restarts required every day).
If ever we get a font with client art that the Mac can't deal with, I just dump the ad into photoshop, flaten it, drop it in and move on.
Better to tell clients to convert the fonts into curves. Even better, get good font management software that will automatically turn on the font (it'll grab it from the client's disk) just long enough to do it yourself, then automatically turn it off. After you're done it'll be like the font was never on your system.
Text gets rasterized and looks worse but who has time to fix it (Mac quality?)
True, and unfortunate, for any system. Normally your text gets rendered at 3600dpi (or whatever you use), so to cut it down to 300dpi or whatever in your image is going to look bad. The only thing you can do is up the resolution when rasterizing, but that can screw with any images in the artwork and make your RIPs work that much harder.
No matter the source of the particular problem of the moment on the Mac, though, the point is that when a Mac crashes you lose all your work. Something that does not seem to happen on a PC running XP.
It's the software that saves you, not the OS. Photoshop will still lose everything if Windows crashes (at least the version I have).
The menu bar that remain at the top of the screen and merely changes depending on what program is opened.
It's a basic rule of human-computer interaction. Things always being at the same place lets users work faster and more reliably. Your motor memory and Fitts' Law gets you to that one top menu bar faster than you could get to any application's individual menu bar. That's why the menu bar is better like that, and why Microsoft's menus, and especially their personalized menus, suck.
Good to hear from you again. FReepRegards!
Glad to see things are at least somewhat better over there. Hope something above helped.
Glad to hear they finally listened to me about all those garbage fonts.
But your bosses have to be the most parsimonious people in publishing... 10.2??? That's five years old! Therefore your hardware has to be at least that old. That's about the same length of time since I've seen a Kernel Panic. How much RAM are you running?
Have you turned on the auto-backup in your software?