justin1974 Posted November 3, 2003 Share Posted November 3, 2003 Thinking of getting osx10.3, has anyone tested or know of any compatibility issues? Quote Link to comment
rjtiedeman Posted November 4, 2003 Share Posted November 4, 2003 I have been running Panther (10.3) on a G5 with Vectorworks 10.5.1b since last week. I havenot had any problems with Vectorworks. The only software problems I have encountered are older software running in Classic Mode. Bob Tiedemann Quote Link to comment
TiTaNiuM sAMuRai Posted November 5, 2003 Share Posted November 5, 2003 Hi. I actually read your post title. My boss wanted to be the guinea pig -- or, guinea Panther, as the case may be. Apparently, X 10.3 breaks VW953 printing. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted November 5, 2003 Share Posted November 5, 2003 If you want to use panther, you'll need VW 10.5.1b1. This is a beta version, so be aware of the consequences a beta version may have. VW 9 is not signed to be used with Panther. Quote Link to comment
calsan Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 Hi I've installed panther on one of our spare computers to check for bugs before doing a mass install. Quite glad I did, if I may say so. So yes, I can confirm that Vectorworks 9.5.3 cannot print once panther is installed. The crash is after you press the print button - VW9 quits without warning! We will probably delay installation of panther until we can justify upgrading all our VW licences. Having said that, panther is better in every other respect and has made the iBook 366 I did our test on seem like a new computer - everything appears to happen twice as fast as under jaguar - which is quite a shock, I'm used to upgrades making things go sloooooowerrrrr. :-( Quote Link to comment
Richard Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 WOW! This sucks, blame Apple, blame NNR, but however you cut it if the code is not downward compatable, you've lost me. Autocad is not that bad after all. Goodbye to all and good luck, cause you're gonna need it!!! Quote Link to comment
Richard Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 WOW! This sucks, blame Apple, blame NNR, but however you cut it if the code is not downward compatable, you've lost me. Autocad is not that bad after all. Goodbye to all and good luck, cause you're gonna need it!!! Quote Link to comment
Bart Rammeloo Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 quote: Originally posted by Richard: WOW! This sucks, blame Apple, blame NNR, but however you cut it if the code is not downward compatable, you've lost me. Autocad is not that bad after all. Goodbye to all and good luck, cause you're gonna need it!!! Bye bye Richard. Have a lot of "fun" with ACAD. [ 11-06-2003, 07:17 AM: Message edited by: BaRa ] Quote Link to comment
rjtiedeman Posted November 10, 2003 Share Posted November 10, 2003 I have been using 10.5.1b on my new 2 GH /G5 all week. I have printed to both the networked office printers and made PDFs for distribution to vendors and marketing. At this time I have not had problems printing. Printers used: XEROX Phaser 8 1/2 X 11 multi-page documents XEROX DocuColor 11 X 17 layouts I have not as yet tried my Epson 3000 but I just installed new Epson 3000 drivers for system 10. My office has full time support for the network printers so the drivers are kept up to date. Bob Tiedemann Quote Link to comment
AgnesDiamond Posted November 11, 2003 Share Posted November 11, 2003 In addition to the printing problem, I have found that VW doesn't save my VW Preferences in OS X.3. I have to reset the preferences every time I open VW. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Quote Link to comment
calsan Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 Dear BaRa unlike you, I won't be dropping mac just because of this v. minor problem. Don't forget that windoze has viruses! Quote Link to comment
Philip Wheelock Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 Not sure why anyone or any office who actually relies on VW for a living would upgrade to Mac OSX 10.3 while the only Vectorworks version that works under it is still in beta. Why worry? I'm having a nice, stable ride with VW under OSX 10.2.8. BTW, I like AutoCAD; used in in the last office where I worked before starting out on my own. But it's expensive - nearly $5K in software and setup costs for an ADT seat a couple of years ago... The price/performance ratio of upgrading to Vectorworks v.10 looks pretty good to me from that perspective. Philip S. Wheelock, Jr. AIA Wheelock Associates Architects Quote Link to comment
cs Posted November 21, 2003 Share Posted November 21, 2003 VW 9.5.3 and Panther works fine. You can print about preview. Works with HPDesignJet 755, HP LaserJet 5000, HP 4600...... For good prints set in papersize 1200dpi Quote Link to comment
Peter van der Elst Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 VW 9.5.3, Panther and a Xante AW1200 doesn't work A solution is to make a pdf and print that from acrobat or preview. Quote Link to comment
urimevs Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 I can print with VW 9.5.3 on OS X 10.3.1 to a HP 1220C and an HP 450C. it's been said on this tread that it was not possible. What's going on? Quote Link to comment
Richard Anderson Posted December 13, 2003 Share Posted December 13, 2003 quote: Originally posted by Philip Wheelock: Not sure why anyone or any office who actually relies on VW for a living would upgrade to Mac OSX 10.3 while the only Vectorworks version that works under it is still in beta. No choice when you buy a new DP 2GHz G5, that's why. (Well, I suppose you could downgrade your OS but who wants to do that? Panther is a superior environment in most repsects.) When I needed to buy the new tower, I checked with my VW sales rep and he assured me that the "beat" in the "beta" was not a stablity issue -- just a not-fully-inplememted-features issue. As it is, I've discovered more functionality in the beta as some of them must have been broken in my previous set-up. Never thought to look into those things (bugs?) simply because I did not know they were there! Quote Link to comment
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