Hi;
New to macs. Had been using Pagerstream for AmigaOne., Was wondering is the osx version
of Pagestream useful for serious work? Could I easily transfer all my brochures and booklets
to the OSX Pagestream and keep developing the?
My amigaone died and I bought a mac mini. Switching is like learning a foreign language with
new hand gestures.

JMG

Hi,

I'll have to let others answer this for you, since I'm a bit biased. My
opinion is that it is very functional, but save early/save often/keep
backups. It has a few quirks of its own in the Mac specific code, but
the core code is more developed and stable than another other platform
currently.

Deron

> Hi;
> New to macs. Had been using Pagerstream for AmigaOne., Was wondering is the osx version
> of Pagestream useful for serious work? Could I easily transfer all my brochures and booklets
> to the OSX Pagestream and keep developing the?
> My amigaone died and I bought a mac mini. Switching is like learning a foreign language with
> new hand gestures.
>
> JMG
>
>

--
Deron Kazmaier - support@pagestream.org
Grasshopper LLC Publishing -http://www.pagestream.org
PageStream DTP for Amiga, Linux, Macintosh, and Windows

Greetings All...

Just have a (hopefully) quick question for Deron and/or the group...

I've been using PageStream OSX through the alpha and beta stages on
an iBook G4, currently running OSX 10.4.11. As all things eventually
go, we fear that our iBook will soon be passing on to Silicon Heaven
(or possibly Silicon Hell, considering how feisty and uncooperative
it's been lately).

In simple terms, the iBook G4 has finally hit that point where money
is far better spent on purchasing a new laptop, rather than
continually wasting funds in a futile attempt at keeping this one
going on a bit longer...

As such, my wife decided to take care of the situation and recently
informed me that a shiny (er, "black") new MacBook will be arriving
at our door shortly -- a 2.4 GHz Intel Dual Core 2, 4 GB RAM, 250 GB
HDD, lots of other nifty additions, and running OS 10.5.4!

Woohoo!

Now, getting back to my actual question...

Am I correct in my assumption that the current PageStream OSX beta
(v5.0.4.21) IS a universal binary and thus totally compatible with my
new OS 10.5.4 Intel Macbook?

Or in other words, will PageStream basically run the same on my Intel
MacBook as it did (does) on my PPC iBook G4... or are there some
functional differences that I'll be running into when using in with
Leopard?

Also, just curious, but does PgS run natively on the Intel Macs, or
does it run via Rosetta?

My apologies for any potentially dumb questions asked above -- I've
unfortunately had NO real world exposure in using Leopard to date (an
unfortunate side-effect of my being disabled, retired, and VERY
sick), and thus am not entirely such what to expect... at least until
I can start digging through the system personally. Just wanna make
sure I can continue using my current copy of PageStream OSX as is...
until the next update, of course!

As always, many thanks in advance for any wisdom you folks can pass my way!
Regards,
Jeff

(*SIGH* - a simple query that can be asked in one sentance, and
instead I write a novella....)

Sorry for your health!

PageStream is a universal binary, and runs just fine on an Intel laptop.
After all, it is what PageStream is developed on

Deron

> Greetings All...
>
> Just have a (hopefully) quick question for Deron and/or the group...
>
> I've been using PageStream OSX through the alpha and beta stages on
> an iBook G4, currently running OSX 10.4.11. As all things eventually
> go, we fear that our iBook will soon be passing on to Silicon Heaven
> (or possibly Silicon Hell, considering how feisty and uncooperative
> it's been lately).
>
> In simple terms, the iBook G4 has finally hit that point where money
> is far better spent on purchasing a new laptop, rather than
> continually wasting funds in a futile attempt at keeping this one
> going on a bit longer...
>
> As such, my wife decided to take care of the situation and recently
> informed me that a shiny (er, "black") new MacBook will be arriving
> at our door shortly -- a 2.4 GHz Intel Dual Core 2, 4 GB RAM, 250 GB
> HDD, lots of other nifty additions, and running OS 10.5.4!
>
> Woohoo!
>
> Now, getting back to my actual question...
>
> Am I correct in my assumption that the current PageStream OSX beta
> (v5.0.4.21) IS a universal binary and thus totally compatible with my
> new OS 10.5.4 Intel Macbook?
>
> Or in other words, will PageStream basically run the same on my Intel
> MacBook as it did (does) on my PPC iBook G4... or are there some
> functional differences that I'll be running into when using in with
> Leopard?
>
> Also, just curious, but does PgS run natively on the Intel Macs, or
> does it run via Rosetta?
>
> My apologies for any potentially dumb questions asked above -- I've
> unfortunately had NO real world exposure in using Leopard to date (an
> unfortunate side-effect of my being disabled, retired, and VERY
> sick), and thus am not entirely such what to expect... at least until
> I can start digging through the system personally. Just wanna make
> sure I can continue using my current copy of PageStream OSX as is...
> until the next update, of course!
>
> As always, many thanks in advance for any wisdom you folks can pass my way!
> Regards,
> Jeff
>
>
> (*SIGH* - a simple query that can be asked in one sentance, and
> instead I write a novella....)
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>

--
Happy Trails,
Deron Kazmaier deron@dogstarkennel.com
KD0AYO Western South Dakota
Dog Star Kennelhttp://www.dogstarkennel.com
--- Racing AKC Sepp-Star Seppala Siberian Husky Sled Dogs

Hi JMG,

On 9/08/2008, on the subject of "[PageStreamMacintoshBeta] New Mac user
How useful is PGS", you wrote:

> Hi;
> New to macs. Had been using Pagerstream for AmigaOne., Was wondering
> is the osx version of Pagestream useful for serious work? Could I
> easily transfer all my brochures and booklets to the OSX Pagestream
> and keep developing the? My amigaone died and I bought a mac mini.
> Switching is like learning a foreign language with new hand gestures.

I've only had OS X PgS for a few weeks and haven't yet really pushed it,
but I have found no show-stoppers yet.

PgS seems to load both my Amiga and Windows sourced docs fine. Despite
the fact I have all my PgS fonts located centrally on a server, with all
PgS versions set up to use these fonts, there is an issue of font
names/family naming conventions being different for each platform, so you
have to "convert" the fonts as the documents are loaded - which luckily
PgS can remember.

They will have to be "convert"ed and not "display"ed because the documents
won't print correctly unless the fonts are "convert"ed on loading. The
difference between the two seems to be that PgS will ask you if you wish
to save the document on quitting if you have "convert"ed fonts when the
doc was loaded.

Apart from that quirk, so far so good :^).

--
Steve Bowman - Sydney, Australia

Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who
has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in
skilled hands it is fearsome.

-- (Terry Pratchett, Mort)

Thanks for your reply Steve. What you report sounds promising. A little conversion is not a
big problem. I had to put .jp,/png etc extensions on all my photos and art. Mac like
windows needs extensions to read files.

--- In PageStreamMacintoshBeta@yahoogroups.com, Steve Bowman
<stevebow.02.yahoo@...> wrote:
>
> Hi JMG,
>
> On 9/08/2008, on the subject of "[PageStreamMacintoshBeta] New Mac user
> How useful is PGS", you wrote:
>
> > Hi;
> > New to macs. Had been using Pagerstream for AmigaOne., Was wondering
> > is the osx version of Pagestream useful for serious work? Could I
> > easily transfer all my brochures and booklets to the OSX Pagestream
> > and keep developing the? My amigaone died and I bought a mac mini.
> > Switching is like learning a foreign language with new hand gestures.
>
> I've only had OS X PgS for a few weeks and haven't yet really pushed it,
> but I have found no show-stoppers yet.
>
> PgS seems to load both my Amiga and Windows sourced docs fine. Despite
> the fact I have all my PgS fonts located centrally on a server, with all
> PgS versions set up to use these fonts, there is an issue of font
> names/family naming conventions being different for each platform, so you
> have to "convert" the fonts as the documents are loaded - which luckily
> PgS can remember.
>
> They will have to be "convert"ed and not "display"ed because the documents
> won't print correctly unless the fonts are "convert"ed on loading. The
> difference between the two seems to be that PgS will ask you if you wish
> to save the document on quitting if you have "convert"ed fonts when the
> doc was loaded.
>
> Apart from that quirk, so far so good :^).
>
> --
> Steve Bowman - Sydney, Australia
>
> Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who
> has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in
> skilled hands it is fearsome.
>
> -- (Terry Pratchett, Mort)
>
JMG