Mac OS 10.3: Applications
Posted on January 20, 2004
Revised on April 28, 2004
- It may be close to impossible to install QuarkXpress 4.1x on Panther with Classic from the install CD. The installer crashes on launch on some CDs and the install script doesn't know what app to use to launch on other CDs. The only reliable way I've found to install QuarkXpress 4.1 on Panther is to install it on an OS 9 boot mac and copy it over, or to copy it over from a backup of a previously installed QuarkXpress folder.
- Saving an EPS file from Photoshop 7 with a clipping path and importing it into QuarkXpress 4.11 causes QuarkXpress to crash. Workaround: Save your EPS as a Tiff and select the embedded clipping path in QuarkXpress. Solution: Upgrade to Photoshop CS.
- If you're having problems with Acrobat 6 crashing when launching, check to see if Norton Antivirus is on. Turning it off may fix your problem. You may also need to upgrade your version of Norton Antivirus.
- Disk Copy has been merged into Disk Utility.
- Process Viewer has been ramped up and is now known as Activity Monitor.
- You still can't use TextEdit to save files that are compatible with OS 9. Even files saved as Plain Text are not translated properly and all carriage returns are ignored, replaced with garbled characters. I presume this has something to do with OS X's Unicode encoding. Workaround: Classic still comes with a version of Simpletext that works fine. Also, if you've installed Apple's Developer Tools (now called Xcode), you'll find an OS X native version of Simpletext that works great.
- Eudora may pause intermittently.. this happens because Panther changed how TCP/IP checks are handled. To fix this, upgrade Eudora to version 6.0.2 or later.
- Panther has not fixed the bug in Classic that causes slow-downs in QuarkXpress when closing windows with more than one window open at the same time. The more windows you have open, the longer it takes for each window to close.
- Extensis Suitcase X1 causes problems with auto-activation in QuarkXpress as well as a few other problems with many applications. The solution (as advised by Extensis tech support) is to allow Suitcase to manage all system fonts (under the Tools menu). This solved most of my problems, but if you run into any font related issues, make sure you check Suitcase first. You may also need to log in as root and remove certain fonts from the font folders (such as Futura and Helvetica Neue, for which there are much better (and more compatible) Postscript cuts). One problem I haven't been able to fix is an accented "y" character before spaces in Apple's Address Book. Update: I've narrowed down the culprit to the Helvetica font. The dfont version Apple installs doesn't have the "y" character... it only appears when I remove the dfont and replace it with a PostScript version. Since the Postscript version is far more important for print production work, I'll just have to put up with the glitch in Address Book. Also, I no longer use Extensis Suitcase X1 to manage system fonts – I manually removed all unnecessary fonts myself (as root). This is the surest way to fix any font conflicts.
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