Re: eTax via Crossover Mac ?
Hi Derek and all I seem to have successfully completed my tax return using eTax via Crossover http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac (running on 10.4.10). One little snag I've hit at the end is trying to print my completed return to pdf. Anyone have any suggestions? I don't really want to print to paper because it's a mountain of pages. eTax via Crossover does seem to let you choose a printer to use, so I'm wondering if I should install a 3rd party 'print to pdf' utility. Anyone know of any free ones these days? When I proceed with the print button, it seems to bypass the OSX window whereby you can choose to save as a pdf. I guess this must be because Crossover avoids OSX?? Hopefully someone out there has hit the same problem and come up with a solution. Cheers, Steven On 24/7/07 9:57 AM, Derek Y-E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Steven and WAMUG folks. I successfully installed the current eTax software on an Intel Mac a week or so back, and launched it without problem... I haven't actually completed a return using Crossover yet. But all signs suggest that it will be a flawless process, since eTax is such a simple application. According to the Crossover site (http://www.codeweavers.com/ compatibility/browse/name?app_id=1457), it says: E-Tax 2005, 2004/5 Electronic Tax Return submission software released by ATO. Works fine. Although that's the older version listed on their site, I don't imagine there will be a problem. If you get around to doing a return before I do, you should post your results to WAMUG and/or the Crossover site. (Possibly with the word etax (without the hyphen) in the title/description, since that might help people find it when they do a search of the Crossover site). Cheers, Derek -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: eTax via Crossover Mac ?
Steven wrote: Hi Derek and all I seem to have successfully completed my tax return using eTax via Crossover http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac (running on 10.4.10). One little snag I've hit at the end is trying to print my completed return to pdf. Anyone have any suggestions? I don't really want to print to paper because it's a mountain of pages. eTax via Crossover does seem to let you choose a printer to use, so I'm wondering if I should install a 3rd party 'print to pdf' utility. Anyone know of any free ones these days? When I proceed with the print button, it seems to bypass the OSX window whereby you can choose to save as a pdf. I guess this must be because Crossover avoids OSX?? Hopefully someone out there has hit the same problem and come up with a solution. Cheers, Steven Try the CUPS PDF package at http://www.codepoetry.net/projects/cups-pdf-for-mosx If you're using Parallels or VMWare there's PDFCreator for Windows (I'm not sure if it would work under Crossover) http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator As noted at http://www.newtonslore.com/2007/09/20/printing-from-windows-under-parallels/ Thanks, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: eTax via Crossover Mac ?
Shay, CUPS worked!!! Much appreciated! Steven On 21/10/07 10:33 PM, Shay Telfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steven wrote: Hi Derek and all I seem to have successfully completed my tax return using eTax via Crossover http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac (running on 10.4.10). One little snag I've hit at the end is trying to print my completed return to pdf. Anyone have any suggestions? I don't really want to print to paper because it's a mountain of pages. eTax via Crossover does seem to let you choose a printer to use, so I'm wondering if I should install a 3rd party 'print to pdf' utility. Anyone know of any free ones these days? When I proceed with the print button, it seems to bypass the OSX window whereby you can choose to save as a pdf. I guess this must be because Crossover avoids OSX?? Hopefully someone out there has hit the same problem and come up with a solution. Cheers, Steven Try the CUPS PDF package at http://www.codepoetry.net/projects/cups-pdf-for-mosx If you're using Parallels or VMWare there's PDFCreator for Windows (I'm not sure if it would work under Crossover) http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator As noted at http://www.newtonslore.com/2007/09/20/printing-from-windows-under-parallels/ Thanks, Shay -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
eTax via Crossover Mac ?
Interested to hear whether anyone has tried using Crossover Mac http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac to run eTax and submit their tax return successfully? Regards, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
eTax via Crossover Mac ?
Hi Steven and WAMUG folks. I successfully installed the current eTax software on an Intel Mac a week or so back, and launched it without problem... I haven't actually completed a return using Crossover yet. But all signs suggest that it will be a flawless process, since eTax is such a simple application. According to the Crossover site (http://www.codeweavers.com/ compatibility/browse/name?app_id=1457), it says: E-Tax 2005, 2004/5 Electronic Tax Return submission software released by ATO. Works fine. Although that's the older version listed on their site, I don't imagine there will be a problem. If you get around to doing a return before I do, you should post your results to WAMUG and/or the Crossover site. (Possibly with the word etax (without the hyphen) in the title/description, since that might help people find it when they do a search of the Crossover site). Cheers, Derek -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
