I sat Friday with my transcript of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard , staring at the holographic boxful , and question if it was going to make a mess of my fluid - running Mac . Having upgraded to Adobe ’s originative Suite 3 on my Mac Pro originally this yr , everything was tuned and running perfectly , and I was in no precipitation to mess up that up . But having drunk the Apple Kool - assistance long ago , I was anxious to playact with Apple ’s new OS , so off I sound .
Before upgrading , I clone my full internal arduous parkway to an extraneous Firewire drive usingSuperDuper ! . Once I reboot from the patronage and was certain it was working right , I know that the worst matter that could come about was another two time of day to restore the late system to my internal drive if everything went haywire . Thankfully , I did n’t have to vex about it .
I decide to apply the Archive and Install pick for installing Leopard , rather than the Clean Install . I just did n’t have the push to re - install CS3 and the dozens of shareware and freeware apps I had installed on my Mac Pro . So with the suction stop of a button and a 45 - minute delay , my Mac in the end boot into Leopard . The first matter I noticed was that no dialog box pop - up tell me that this - that - and - the - other was incompatible . Everything put to work . The only trouble I had was having to reenter the serial number forSnapz Pro . At that point , I forecast it was too in effect to be true . Something had to go faulty . I just did a major OS update and everything was working perfectly . That never happens .
Upon cluck the InDesign ikon in my newly updated Dock , I held my breathing space . Before I could get down praying , InDesign launch … really tight . I mean well twice as fast as under Tiger . I have a few chaw - IN installed in InDesign , so I was at the very least expecting some underage hiccups , but everything went ok .
Photoshop establish quickly , as did Illustrator , Bridge , Dreamweaver , Flash , Contribute , and Fireworks . And all break away just as expected . According to Adobe , Acrobat Pro and their telecasting apps are not fully compatible , but I ’ve been using Acrobat since Friday afternoon with no issues .
you could also feel comfortable upgrading to Leopard if you ’re using Extensis’Suitcase Fusion . In the yesteryear , it seemed like every major OS update broke , or at the very least hindered , Suitcase . Not this time around . Suitcase runs perfectly ok with Leopard and Creative Suite 3 .
I have n’t tested other font direction programs like Linotype’sFont Explorer Xor Insider’sFont Agent Pro , and neither of them have made a peep about Leopard compatibility .
But if you ’re not using a font manager correctly now , or you are and it ’s not working to your liking , you should really consider taking another look at Apple ’s build - in font manager , Font Book . Font Book now sports car - activation system - wide ( see the filmdom shot above ) , and , after a little testing , I ’ve found that it crop great with Creative Suite 3 . baptistry quickly activated in my InDesign documents , and I did n’t even have to have Font Book open . It ’s also much faster than early versions : I have over 2,000 fonts set up and it did n’t skip a beatnik .
So if you ’re holding off on upgrading to Leopard because you swear on your Mac and Adobe ’s originative Suite 3 to garner a living , my experience would indicate that you have no concern . In fact , the only letdown with esteem to CS3 and Leopard is that the new Cover Flow and Quick Look features — which show a prevue in the Finder of the document — doesn’t body of work with InDesign text file ( see range on the right ) . It also does n’t work with Illustrator CS single file , but I ’ll take constancy over those relatively minor matter any day .
[ James Dempsey run theCreative Guyblog , which offers tips , trick and opinion on a variety of design and Mac OS ten topics . ]
