Re: upgrading to 7 -- Mac or Win?

[anandastevens@xxxxxxxxx]

 > You can either boot back into OS 9.x for Save As PDF,
Not a preferred option...even though I suspect we'll be keeping the 
oldest Mac on pure-OS 9.x for a while. (It's a beige G3/300.)

 >  or print to PDF from OS-X Classic.
As long as that works well, we'll be happy.

Thanks,
Ananda

On Friday, May 3, 2002, at 03:01 PM, Lee Richardson wrote:

> Save As PDF doesn't work with FM7 and OS-X, because OS-X doesn't handle 
> the custom printer instance created for Save As PDF. The export menu 
> item for PDF is grayed out because of this.
>
> You can either boot back into OS 9.x for Save As PDF, or print to PDF 
> from OS-X Classic.
>
> ...Lee
>
> At 1:56p -0500 5/3/02, Ananda Stevens wrote:
>
>> We have three Macs and one ancient Wintel box, so we're pretty much set
>> on upgrading the Mac version. We're working on carbonizing our 
>> software,
>> so I've seen some of the odd things that can happen with Classic. 
>> Here's
>> the question: will FM7 let us produce PDF output "without a hassle" 
>> when
>> we reboot the OS X machines into OS 9.2.2 (or the latest version of 
>> 9.x)
>> and work in that environment?
>>
>> My take on it is this: If I can run FM7 in Classic for 90% of my 
>> work, I
>> can handle booting into OS 9.x for the PDF creation. I can't afford to
>> stay in OS 9 mode all day.
>
>
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