i don't like apple stuff...

[Gooch]

yeah...we cannot advise going up to 10.3 over here for me, as well. We are using Quark 6 so that we can stay away from classic mode, but finding inherent bugs where screen fonts come in looking like garble. Which requires me to work in both Quark 5 and 6. I'm going to be beta testing Quark 7, but don't hold out much hope that it will solve all our problems..more likely cause new ones. Extensis suitcase is another huge culprit. That font program is very flakey, and we moved to Font Agent, which is more designed for OS X, and it's better...but still not exactly smooth sailing. There is also a bug in Adobe Photoshop, where if you load a font, you need to close it out and restart the program. And Illustrator is a nightmare....we'll have final PDF or EPS or Quark files that we want to make into an Illustrator EPS (Illustrator provides cleaner EPS's for 4 color print) and very often it will not hold the embedded fonts in the job, or there is replacement issues. And the advertisers, when we receive materials, don't provide fonts, when they are embedding them in the job.

anyway...back to my point...OS X and Mac just simply have made my job much more difficult than it should be. and when we speak to IT people, or other companies, or even other publishing firms...they seem to be having the same problem. Our IT consulktants, when we bring them in... the new thing on my G5 is that Extensis won't even work now, even though it's been re-installed....their answer, b/c they don't know the reason, is to wipe the computer and reinstall the software from scratch. I told them no way. So, on another G5, they did this to...and it still has residual problems. So even the IT people have not a clue. Nobody seems to know...and people sit at these Mac conferances and kiss their ass. It's a love-in. It's bullshit.

My next step is go to Apple. But I already know their answer....they'll say it's not their fault that software developers can't program, and OS X is a godsend.