Questions about Mac...

Seriously people, you do not print the original document. By now you should have worked out now to use Adobe Distiller to ready the brochure/document/ad to the specifications used by the printing house.

I usually export as EPS and then use Distiller to make PDFs.

You need to set the correct color settings and profile to match the kind of paper you print on.

About the whole Mac vs PC in print, it isn't worth discussing. People tend to stick to one platform for one reason or another, we decided to stick with Mac the day it could replace the expensive and often striking typographers under the printing union, which after 9 weeks of strike lost their jobs to the impending computer revolution in the early 1980's.

We simply bought a Mac as one of the first advertising agencies in Denmark and the rest is history.

 

Sounds app-specific to me since I have plenty of apps that don't do this...

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Can't help sorry, just wanted to say I have similar issues with the CS suite in general. OS X in general makes VERY poor use of the nice 2560x1440 res the iMac screen has... It ends up adding nothing to productivity and just makes for more space to annoy you with prompts and small buttons taking too long to move your cursour to/accurately click on because of the stupid mouse acceleration.

 

1. It's program-dependent by design.Which sadly means in practice: Hugely inconsistent (and unpredictable, since there's no visual indication mandated) behaviour. There have been tools like MondoMouse to alleviate it by adding focus-follows-mouse, but they regularly broke after OS updates (and IIRC it doesn't work with Lion/ML at all)...
You have to get used to it, sadly.

2. Nope - it's deeply ingrained in OS X design. (And in this case, it has a lot going for it).

4. Use RightZoom (as others have said), or even better:Divvy or Cinch.
IMO one of the most misguided design decisions in Mac OS/OSX history (after they finally fixed the "only resize windows in the lower-right corner" madness), again, just begging for inconsistent, unpredictable and often simply unwanted behaviour.
If your UX design philosophy encompasses "maximized windows are a waste of space" (which has merit), you sure as hell should give people better tools to handle them.

 

apart from mail (since I couldnt get that to work without filling in lots of details)
name a single program&action that doesnt have click through. I cant see a single example on my pc when I had to click twice i.e. one to focus & 2 to do

 

Over the 8 years I've been using OS X I have always found it much less stable than my windows machines. They also get bogged down on lighter workloads and fill the same amount of RAM easier and react worse to swapping to the hdd as well as recovering from it after (even closing the program, not just the file!). Even with similar hardware as I've been able to test in the later years, the parity is more than noticable when working on the exact same files/programs. I've come to the conclusion that anyone who says they're more stable than windows just doesn't know the do's and dont's of windows - which must at least 95% of mac users...

 

Windows 7, yes.
Windows XP, no.

As someone who uses OSX, linux and Win7 daily I am at a loss to understand why OSX is so unstable or difficult. Granted I'm not running the very, very latest OSX (don't like that they're trying to make is more like iOS and less like Unix), but I've never crashed it (though Word crashed on me when I pasted a graphic the other day - something LibreOffice has never done) and the known bog-downs (mail.app indexing for example) are easily identified and remedied (often from a shell). The only apps I actually find unstable or erratic are MS Office (Excel consistently pops up the "do you want to save" dialog behind the window I'm closing).

I will say that with multiple users logged in, or with inadequate RAM it can be a dog, but I run a slew of apps including Paralles with Win7 running on an 8 GB MBP with a SSD and it's runs just fine.

As of the HMI I'm not a huge fan of OSX. I wish they'd gone with the NeXTSTEP HMI instead as it was much cleaner and more functional. The hardware, OTOH is first rate IMHO - if they made a 13" laptop with something like a 640M GPU I'd buy it and run W7 default. I actually have two older Mac laptops running Linux exclusively (no OSX partition) which make for some very confused seat neighbors on flights.