AquaGrep Review
You can also check out MacGrep v1.0. The author shares a lot of the same views about charging $10 for writing a wrapper.
—Knox
FreeHand 10 Review
FreeHand 10 has been extremely problematic for me. Files open much slower and tools select much slower. I was on this site because I was looking to see if anyone else is having this problem. I have been talking to Macromedia about a color conversion problem and they deny there are any problems with 10. And I have been using FreeHand happily for years. So how do we fix this?
—Roy Smith
Please contact us if you have any suggestions for Roy. —Ed
Episode II: Attack of the Installers
Thank you Ken Gruberman for the fine article on installing software. So clear and well written. Keep up the good work.
—Blaine Wollan
Building the Dream Machine
Congratulations. I have an 8600/300 running Mac OS X and I, too, had to use the XPostFacto option. At first, the Sonnet workaround worked but I had problems galore. The XPostFacto solution was much better. I’m running a G4/450 with a Sonnet FireWire/USB card and it’s great. My iPod works and all of the free software works. My only problem is drivers for my video card (3dfx) and scanner (Canon) are still unavailable. Also, the upgrade business has gone kaput. Nothing since the 450 in three years.
—Roland McBride
Mac OS X does not fully support older video cards. Video- or screen-intensive applications will have poor performance or will not run at all on older Macs running OS X. I considered adding OS X to my beige G3, but too many video-related tasks (including playing DVD movies) and analog audio tasks are not supported by it. You lose a lot of productivity if you have to continually reboot to switch between OS 9 and OS X. —Gregory Tetrault
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Reader Comments (7)
I have had all of the same problems, but have a fix. When printing FH 10 documents to the Epson C80, first click on the File menu, then Page Setup. In the dialog box on the "Format for" pull down menu, the default says "any printer." Change this to "Stylus C80." On the "Paper Size" pull down menu, change the selection from the default "Other" to the size you intend to print, such as "US Letter."
That should eliminate the baffling printing of a small image portion on the lower left hand side of the page that you have probably been experiencing.
With Mac OS X 10.2.5, the export as ".gif" now seems to work, where previously in FreeHand, the attempt would try to save the file as "name.gif.swf." That is, hopefully, resolved for good.
As for the slow response, I am running an iMac G4 800 MHz 17 inch with 512 MB of RAM, and FreeHand 10 is much slower than most of the past versions, including Aldus Freehand on my Mac LC.
Any ideas? Every FH file I work with has multiple TIFFs. It is not an option to change the redraw to a lower resolution because I need to see exactly what the final will look like. Freehand 10 is horrible.
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