At 11:59 PM -0400 10/4/09, t.piwowar wrote:
Are people out of their minds? This report says that 20% of Macs are
now running Snow Leopard. That's insane. Apple has shipped its first
updates to X.6.1 but there are still many reports of odd behavior.
The one about fonts is a show stopper for
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:59 PM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Are people out of their minds? This report says that 20% of Macs are now
running Snow Leopard. That's insane. Apple has shipped its first updates to
X.6.1 but there are still many reports of odd behavior. The one about fonts
is a
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:59 PM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Are people out of their minds? This report says that 20% of Macs are now
running Snow Leopard. That's insane. Apple has shipped its first updates to
X.6.1 but there are still many reports of odd behavior. The one about fonts
is a
The day Snow Leopard came out, I looked at the compatibility
list, didn't see any deal-breakers for me, and upgraded that day.
Of course, I made very sure that my Time Machine was working
and updated a clone of my hard drive just before upgrading
just to be on the safe side. It was cheap, easy
Most annoying thing is that the print options in most programs seem to have
changed and there is no option in the File Menu for making a selection - it
now is all or nothing. We had to update one peice of software.
I think that was a Leopard change, and only in some programs.
In Preview, for
On Oct 5, 2009, at 2:43 PM, David K Watson wrote:
I don't regularly use layout or presentation software, so the font
problem is not an issue for me, but it doesn't seem like a particularly
big one for anyone. As I understand it, is only a problem with
character spacing for Type 1 postscript
The font problem is worse than you report. It messes up TrueType and
OpenType fonts too. Some apologists for Apple say that you can just
adjust the type specs to get spacing back to right, but these are
hopeless programmers who know nothing about typography. The numbers
that they say to randomly
On Oct 5, 2009, at 11:46 PM, b_s-wilk wrote:
How long will it take to fix Snow Leopard? It's only been out a month.
That's not the point. It was not broke and now it is. It represents
the generally slovenly attitude towards computing that the NeXTies
brought to Apple. The thing that makes
Are people out of their minds? This report says that 20% of Macs are
now running Snow Leopard. That's insane. Apple has shipped its first
updates to X.6.1 but there are still many reports of odd behavior. The
one about fonts is a show stopper for me. Maybe it is the $25 price
that got
