Typophile - OS 10.6 and PowerPC going going gone - Comments

ok start your own Freehand

concrete — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:01:13 -0700

ok start your own Freehand live in the past... or buy Freehand off Adobe bring it up to scratch and sell it... please start your own Freehand thread. I guess I have gone off thread with my 10.5 question, more on track from original thread. :)))))

Freehand is great, I love

Rodrigue Planck — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:30:33 -0700

Freehand is great, I love the way it sets type. Freehand does some great things, its gradient tool is awesome. How about this crazy, multiple size pages within a document? Wow1
I wish someone bought Freehand. Adobe has killed some great software in the past, did they ever really do anything with FrameMaker? I’m not knocking Adobe, cause I love postscript, but outside of that and Illustrator, they have really just bought the pieces to the puzzle, kinda like the dude who retired today up in Washington.
The Truth shall set you free

10.5 anyone?... Question for

concrete — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:11:58 -0700

10.5 anyone?...
Question for those ONLY with a G5 dual 2g PowerMac... anyone using 10.5.3 with Adobe CS Suite and no issues?

I hate the fact that AI

dezcom — Sun, 8 Jun 2008 08:47:25 -0700

I hate the fact that AI still does not have contextual alternates on by default! This is just NUTS!!! It is on in InD as it should be, why not AI? It can’t be that hard to fix, for christ’s sake.

ChrisL

I can’t understand what

kakaze — Sun, 8 Jun 2008 00:01:53 -0700

I can’t understand what everyone’s problems with Illustrator are, I love it myself.

The only things I hate about it are how it’s text handling has just died in the last few years. Trying to manipulate text on Illustrator CS3 is like pulling teeth sometimes.

And I absolutely hate that saved files have all the space hogging PDF crap tacked onto them. I’ve saved files with and without PDF compatibility before and the size reduction from saving without PDF compatibility has been huge sometimes—I remember one file was almost 18 megs with the PDF crap attached and without it went down to under a couple megs. But if you save without the PDF compatibility you also lose the icon preview in the OS so it’s one or the other. Despite the fact that hard drives are very large now I do like to save space when I can.

but you CAN draw with

Ch — Sat, 7 Jun 2008 07:45:42 -0700

but you CAN draw with illustrator. the new brush tool is quite versatile, and the integration within CS is better than ever. i basically grew up on adobe and i’m enjoying the CS evolution. i wish ai and psd fully shared gui.

If you don’t like

aluminum — Fri, 6 Jun 2008 11:23:39 -0700

If you don’t like Illustrator, and don’t need postscript, do give InkScape a try.

I’m in good company then.

jupiterboy — Fri, 6 Jun 2008 08:32:45 -0700

I’m in good company then. I’m sure the problem would be opening files made with all the bell and whistles—how to retroconvert them to make sense.

Jupiterboy, Gerard Huerta

Ricardo Cordoba — Fri, 6 Jun 2008 08:22:22 -0700

Jupiterboy, Gerard Huerta made the same kind of wish — a bare-bones version of Illustrator — during a talk he gave at the New York TypeCon.

Patty, you might investigate

jupiterboy — Fri, 6 Jun 2008 08:18:16 -0700

Patty, you might investigate SilverFast.

http://www.silverfast.com/product/Epson/en.html

I wish Adobe would make a bare bones set of apps that only did the basics and cut the filters etc. Illustrator 3.X was very nice and lean but the postscript was rough.

[retro] [end retro]

AGL — Fri, 6 Jun 2008 05:42:20 -0700

[retro]

[end retro]

new title.... Freehand

concrete — Fri, 6 Jun 2008 02:37:17 -0700

new title.... Freehand going... going, going... whoops... already gone. Though you can still buy it, no more development.
Fireworks and Dreamweaver are now getting the CS make over. Acrobat is in a different building I think.

Any issues with Illustrator ask me (+ others)and see if I can help. Would like to make it easy for you.

If I could select BCP

mr — Fri, 6 Jun 2008 02:29:49 -0700

If I could select BCP handles and manipulate them with the keyboard [Inkscape] would replace Illustrator for all my logo work.

You should file a bug.

I’ve always liked

bieler — Fri, 6 Jun 2008 00:08:11 -0700

I’ve always liked PageMaker and still occasionally use it to generate some book documents. I keep it on an older G4 along with other orphaned Mac software such as Streamline and Adobe Type Manager (for creating Multiple Master instances).

InDesign (beginning with CS2) can convert PageMaker docs without problem except that it wipes out the kerning (actually a blessing).

I wouldn’t call PM “crappy software.” As I recall it WAS the page-layout program that started it all and has gotten us here today. Hmmm? I’ve done an awful lot of work with it and, quite frankly, typography and design have nothing to do with software. I’ve handset a lot of books in metal type as well so I think I could suggest that the execution of typography and design are also hardly dependent upon the newer than the newest technology.

I do love working with InDesign (never liked Illustrator) but I can certainly do my work without it if need be.

Gerald

Ha! We called it

Miss Tiffany — Fri, 6 Jun 2008 00:06:53 -0700

Ha! We called it ProfitWrecker.

OS 10.6 and PowerPC going going gone

concrete — Wed, 4 Jun 2008 02:44:34 -0700

Hi just read this... here
don’t panic, yet... I’m not, next year though I may think about some new Macs, I have grown so attached to my current ones, I think I will keep.