ID2Q V4 (Adobe InDesign to QuarkXPress) in Quark 8 - a demonstration
In this video demonstration we show you how easy it is to install and use ID2Q v4 (InDesign to Quark) conversion XTension within QuarkXPress 8 ...
Mac or PC which is better, please lists. Pros and Cons?
I Have an HP pc note book and are planning to purchase a Mac. But don't know if I should keep my 1year old Pc notebook or get a new apple mac notebook. Plaese help me. thank you :) and if you could list the notebook name and where I can get it for a good price.
I am planning to use my notebook just for note takling and homework and download music for free. Thats it. and I don't want to carry around a heavy notebook like my HP. Its really heavy when you have alot of book to carry plus this HP, and the battery life only last for 3 hours MAX! and its suck because I have to carry the charger while I'm in class charging my HP and taking notes.
So many answers and so much bad info. I use both on a daily basis. Neither is a piece of junk or a wrong choice just because of what it is.
First, I'll explain the bad info and then give you some straight dope:
"Macs for one there's no right click" -- hold the Command key when you click, same. How often do you right-click? Most people, about twice an hour. No big deal.
"...confusing to go from a PC tool bar where it seems so simple..." -- I use both Windows and Mac, no problem with the toolbar. It's almost the same as on Windows.
"... costs $300 or more for software, you'll find almost no shareware or freeware..." -- I haven't found any $300 or more programs except the ones that cost $300 for Windows also, such as Photoshop and Quark XPress. Tons of Mac freeware /shareware. I have dozens of them. Try versiontracker.com
"You have to buy all your motherboard and internals from Mac franchised dealers there is no OPEN SOURCE like on a PC" -- not true. You can buy NVidia, ATI, Beldon, etc. at almost any large computer store such as Comp USA, Fry's, etc. The motherboard is not made by third-party companies but do you plan to change the motherboard in your laptop? Come on, guys!
"Do NOT, however, expect easy data exchange UNLESS you buy Mac/PC compatible programs." --I exchange Excel, Word, JPEG, HTML files, no problem. Microsoft made some Word and Excel bottle-necks for Mac software ten years ago but now they have figured it out.
"pictures made with the "free" software that came with his Mac. Totally unreadable in a PC" -- Huh? I make JPEG and PDF files on my Mac using Preview and screen capture and send them by email to my brother's Windows box, no problem. Someone has a lame Windows setup if they can't read standard JPEG and PDF files.
"...he has to compress them using a Mac compression tool that does not work well with Win Zip" -- I don't have to compress my files at all. If I do, I can unzip them fine on my Windows box and so can my friends.
"You will not find familiar, easy to use tools. ...Fetch for FTP" -- If you don't want to see something unfamiliar, stick with Windows. And vice versa for Mac users, don't look at Windows, it's unfamiliar. About FTP, just use web-based such as www.01ftp.com
"if you do picture work you may HAVE to buy Adobe at $600 if you want to exchanged images with PC users, because we can't deciper their PCT images" -- Not true, get GraphicConverter or QuickImageCM for free and don't save in PICT format unless you plan to publish or print it from your Mac.
"Too many "Mac" proprietary formats to deal with..." -- Maybe your Mac using friends don't know what formats are good for Windows. They can save files in almost any format that other platforms need. Not true for Windows, but never mind. They needn't use the TWO OR THREE Mac proprietary formats.
"...only good exchange is Apple Quicktime" -- No, Macs can use almost any video format. Microsoft has stopped making Internet browser plugins for Macs since they got mad at Apple for offering Safari to replace Internet Explorer so their PROPRIETARY WMV format needs a third-party plugin.
"...not for casual computing, game playing or even Internet browsing, since many of the sites are Linux or NT based" -- Huh? Since when does the type of server affect your browsing ability? Many web sites use Mac servers and that doesn't keep Windows boxes from browsing. No sense here.
"You CAN expect to have problems seeing some sites" -- older versions of Safari were totally wacky but with newest version or Firefox, this is not an issue.
"I never got the hang of macs. they are way too complicated to operate." -- My friend's 8 year old learned to use my Mac in about ten minutes. You just have to relax and accept new ideas.
"..it has very little hardware support" -- Almost all printers, scanners, cameras, external drives work with Mac. I use a DOS formatted USB drive with both Mac and Windows, no problem. Can Windows use both drive formats? Oh, no! Limited hardware support for Windows!
"try Linux its better than mac" -- Actually, it is almost the same as Mac in most ways. Two differences: must choose different flavors for Mac or Windows, can't find much software for Linux. Oh, wait. That's how foks try to shoot down Mac but they fail to mention it for Linux. Hmmm...
Now, here is my list of Pros-Cons:
Windows: Pros --
* More software available, especially games.
* Most LAN maintenance technicians are only familiar with Windows.
* DOS partitions can be changed without loosing data (usually).
Windows Cons --
* Registry. Enough said.
* Viruses. Enough said.
* New Hardware Found Wizard can't find drivers. Enough said.
* Many issues are too vague for even a well-trained technician to resolve so, format and reinstall. Arghhh!!!
* Software uninstall can be a nightmare.
* Not very secure from hackers, malware, etc.
* Partition (drive volume) sizes are restricted.
Mac Pros --
* Very intuitive thus easy to learn and remember how to use all features.
* Install the OS in 30 minutes and restart once. Ready to go.
* Many more drivers pre-installed by the OS so you don't have to go searching the Web for hours.
* Driver and other software installs are 99 percent one pathway, no errors.
* Software uninstall is a piece of cake. Drag the progam file / folder to the trash and it's gone!
* Built-in password for screensaver plus "hot corner" activation so if you want to walk away for ten minutes, no one can snoop.
* Use older software without rebooting to an older OS.
* Partition sizes are almost unlimited. You can use the entire 100GB drive as one partition.
Mac Cons --
* Not enough gaming software for serious gamers (situation is improving weekly now with Intel processors in new Macs).
* Only 15-20,000 programs available.
* Only Mac-knowlegable technicians or those with the intuition to just give it a try can resolve Mac issues for networking.
Which movie, book, wine or lover is better? There is no "better" except what is better for you. Try them both.
It just sits there dribbling
It felt like going back to the early days of System 7 or even System 6 MultiFinder, when Macs were running on Motorola 680XX chips. In those days the network was at modem speed or 10base-T if you were lucky. We weren’t sending as much data but even so, emailing a file wouldn’t hang the mail package and data would depart as a background task.
Move forward ten years, even a lowly G3 Powerbook under System 8 was able to send large attachments as a background task while acting as a PostScript RIP for our large-format inkjet.
Onwards another 5 years to the era of my work Optiplex and G5 PowerMacs. The Dell runs XP like treacle off a spoon while the Mac, and brilliant OSX, is busy with huge pieces of software working concurrently. Photoshop might be putting a filter across a 500Mb image at the same time as Visualhub is compressing a video. The Mac user is busy designing in QuarkXPress while Mail is sending a 20Mb attachment and still collecting new messages every five minutes. Just to add to the fun, SETI is in the background utilising spare capacity.
Avoiding Text Reflow When Opening Legacy Documents in QuarkXPress ...
For QuarkXPress 6 to work on Mac OS X, Quark added support for the basic character sets in Unicode (OpenType) fonts. However, they didn’t add support for the advanced features in OpenType. This allowed QuarkXPress 6 to keep the text engine from earlier versions of QuarkXPress.
However, when Quark added the avanced OpenType features to QuarkXPress 7 and higher, they improved the text engine all around. Thankfully, they also included the older text engine, and it is used when you open an older QuarkXPress document. So, for example, if you open a QuarkXPress 6/5/4 document in QuarkXPress 7 or 8, the text flow will not change.
But, if you open a document that was created in QuarkXPress 7 or 8, and then open an older document and copy text from it, if you paste that text into the new document it will use the new document’s text engine and may reflow.
Here’s the big tip for working with text across versions of QuarkXPress:
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It just sits there dribbling The Mac user is busy designing in QuarkXPress while Mail is sending a 20Mb attachment and still collecting new messages every five minutes. |
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