Re: OT: Stable Mac OS releases, was Re: digital question #2

Jeff,

Thanks for the *very timely* mention of Harrington's Quadtone RIP!

I've been royally frustrated over the last week trying to get an
upgrade installation of ImagePrint Pro 6 to work with PhotoShopCS tiff
files under a *new* installation of OS X 10.3.2. . . . nothing but
Nixons all the way. I don't know what is so emotionally unsettling to
IP6, but it made a shambles of any new image I put in its path.

After reading your post, I went for the Quadtone RIP and was back to
printing in no time flat with great results. The $50 shareware fee is
the best bargain I've gotten since elementary school!

Regards to all,
John
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On Aug 3, 2004, at 12:53 PM, Jeff Dilcher wrote:

> I am running Gentoo Linux on a P4 2.5ghz machine with 1024MB ram.
> Adobe Photoshop installs and runs using the "wine" program:
> http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=17&versionId=1336
>
> I am using version 20040121 of wine, and it works fine, though I
> am told some subsequent versions may have had little glitches.
>
> Photoshop 7 under Linux seems to perform about 98% of the functions
> as it does on Windows- One thing it won't do, for instance, is
> perform the
> "save to web" compression comparison utility, but I find I don't
> really need that.
>
> Unfortunately, the "official" Epson driver for my 1280 doesn't install
> on
> Linux, but, Linux has it's own fairly mature printer driver that
> functions with my Epson 1280.
>
> I have been editing in Photoshop, saving the file, then
> inkjet printing using Roy Harrington's Quadtone RIP program, which
> uses thirdparty inks. Results have been great.
>
> http://www.harrington.com/QuadToneRIP.html
>
> (also available for you OS X folks).
>
> I wrote a small tutorial for installing QuadToneRIP under linux-
> If anyone is interested they can email for a .pdf file which may
> make things easier for you.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:16:35PM -0500, Dennis Moser wrote:
>> Okay, Jeff, I'll bite: HOW did you get Photoshop 7 to run under Linux?
>> And what sort of box are you running Gentoo on? I ask because in my
>> day
>> job, this may matter...
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>> Jeff Dilcher wrote:
>>
>>> I am probably the lone user of desktop Linux on the list, using
>>> Gentoo.
>>> Don't laugh- I am running Photoshop 7 on it! Linux is not without
>>> it's
>>> own learning curve, though- not for the technologically weak of
>>> heart,
>>> but it is getting more user friendly, and is regarded as very secure
>>> and pretty stable.
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:35:56AM -0500, Pam Niedermayer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dennis, I"ve been a Mac software developer for 19 years (and a
>>>> software
>>>> developer for 34 years). MacOS was a patched wreck waiting to
>>>> happen,
>>>> day in and day out. Its only saving grace was the interface and the
>>>> fact
>>>> that even it was superior to Windows. I've also been a user of many
>>>> types of applications, such as graphics. Memory management, or lack
>>>> thereof, continuously got in the way. Maybe 8.6 was the best of the
>>>> MacOS's, I'll leave that for you to debate, I tend to prefer 9.2.n;
>>>> but
>>>> I no longer boot into MacOS.
>>>>
>>>> Pam
>>>>
>>>> Dennis Moser wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> No, she's not kidding...8.6 WAS an extremely robust and steady OS
>>>>> on
>>>>> pre-Power PC Macs such as the IIci's and Quadras...but that was the
>>>>> problem, the Power PCs were a move away from that and required
>>>>> something more...one of the problems was Apple maintaining
>>>>> backwards-compatibility with all that old hardware (I still have
>>>>> three
>>>>> IIci's and a Quadra 950...).
>>>>>
>>>>> One thing to remember is that, underneath the "hood", OS X is
>>>>> really a
>>>>> UNIX operating system and they are noted for their stability (we
>>>>> ran a
>>>>> IIci with NetBSD UNIX on it for a year before needing to reboot
>>>>> it!).
>>>>>
>>>>> Dennis
>>>>>
>>>>> Pam Niedermayer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> You've got to be kidding! No, and I mean NO, version of Mac OS has
>>>>>> ever been as reliable as OSX, on which I'm booted for months, not
>>>>>> hours, without a crash, or even hint of a crash. That alone is
>>>>>> worth
>>>>>> the price of admission (a new Mac). Now 9.2.2 is also very good,
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> I'm with you on the upgrades issue (still run all the major
>>>>>> graphics
>>>>>> and publishing apps in 9); but....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pam
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Judy Seigel wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> IMO, the last good system was 8.6 -- it did everything
>>>>>>> wonderfully,
>>>>>>> NEVER crashed, was kind and considerate and sensible. ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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Received on Tue Aug 3 15:56:31 2004