Comments on: InDesignSecrets Podcast 063

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:18:49 +0000

You know I bring my Mac to conferences because my Compaq laptop can’t run OS X. Seriously! I love being able to run both OS’s at once. And at the conference I definitely spent more time in Windows during my sessions than OS X, fwiw, esp. the ID/IC workshop (running ID in Mac and IC in Windows on the same doc worked great) and in the Bridge one (to show CS2 on the Mac and CS3 in Windows at the same time). I didn’t know about the flip in platform preference in the Web Design conference, that’s interesting!

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:56:18 +0000

Right; I was just pointing out that you can’t give the software to everyone on the block (as far as I know).

As for Vista vs. Mac, I think it’s safe to say that while both of us use both of them, we both know far more about Mac than Windows. Of course, we’re not alone: At the recent Creative Suite Conference in Chicago, I think every speaker except Dov Isaacs (who works for Adobe) and Jim Maivald (who was teaching about XML) brought their Mac to demo with.

At the Web Design Conference (which followed immediately after the CS conference), it changed dramatically — I think it was about 75% Windows (both speakers and audience).

That said, in our next podcast we’re going to have a blistering exposé on how InDesign 2 runs in Windows 7.

By: Sandee "vectorbabe" Cohen

Sandee "vectorbabe" Cohen — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:39:19 +0000

> But of course, the software is only supposed to be used by one person

David,

Is that one person or one computer?

If you bring your laptop and machine to each person’s house and they scan their stuff (or you scan it for them), then I don’t you’re breaking the EULA.

By: Klaus Nordby

Klaus Nordby — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:31:35 +0000

Yes, Anne-Marie, you are unusually good about being platform-neutral, so you get points for that! Which is why I also slapped your dainty little hand a little — you’ve spoiled me. Vista? Can’t recall if you discussed that, and if you didn’t that’s quite OK, as we Windows power users are hanging onto XP for dear life. I would even happily have stayed with W2K SP4, which I regard as the best Win version ever — fast, stable and low on memory requirements — but Adobe’s rejection of W2K for XP/Vista made me go along with XP.

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:15:28 +0000

Re David’s favorite toy … it’s the centerpiece of Joe Kissel’s Oct 07 Macworld article, “The Real Paperless Office.”

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:05:48 +0000

Sandee, the “deal” about calendars doesn’t have anything to do with bleeds. It has to do with people who want to see what the final “spread” will look like while laying out a folded wall calendar. The workaround just has to do with working on the spread in “final” layout mode, but still being able to print it.

As for scanning checks with the scansnap: GREAT idea!

(I thought about starting a new business with this thing thing: Just go around to all my neighbors and scan their stuff. It’s so portable and fast that it’s not like each person needs their own scanner all the time. But of course, the software is only supposed to be used by one person.)

By: Rodrigo Cantini

Rodrigo Cantini — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:01:13 +0000

…and YES: there is the ‘reset to base’ button on Id CS2.

By: Bob Levine

Bob Levine — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:27:10 +0000

Keep talking, AM. Although I’m primarily a Windows guy (still XP), many of my clients work on Macs and they still depend on me for info. Keep it coming.

By: Fred Goldman

Fred Goldman — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:15:37 +0000

>(Trying to remember if we talked about Vista when it was released …).

No you didn’t, and it’s a good thing. No one on the Windows side is crazy enough to jump out and buy a new OS the day it’s released. We wait until at least the second service pack… (the risky ones will jump in at the first).

It takes Microsoft a little while to get it right…

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:16:42 +0000

Klaus, your comments about platform-specific content are on target. FWIW the last time I checked, about 60% of our blog visitors are on Macs and 40% are on Windows; and I’d guess the same is true for podcast listeners (there’s no way to track platform for podcast downloads though, as far as I know). So most of the time our tips/topics are platform-neutral, even our keyboard shortcuts poster.

But when major new OS versions come out we do need to speak specifically to them; since they affect a good portion of our audience. Thanks for sticking with us in the meantime! (Trying to remember if we talked about Vista when it was released …)