Catz and Dogs
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Leopard, Apple on November 22, 2007 at 12:04 pm
According to latest reports, us Southerners prefer moggies to doggies while Northerners are more likely to assume we refer to their affectionate name for benzodiazepine.
Personally I’d do away with them all, so clearing the footpaths of pooh and leaving our gardens full of birds and goldfish. Even that’s not for sure since a crow and magpie partnership have taken a liking to my golden orfs. The recent shift from Tigers to Leopards has shown not all is right in the cat world where not everyone is preferring spots to stripes.
My partner, for example, stuck in a time warp of Adobe CS1 Photoshop and Acrobat and labouring in her private QuarkXPress 6.5 hell is not so certain about some of the new features. Most of her problems are due to Adobe’s refusal to create applications as bundles, preferring instead to scatter parts of their programs in umpteen locations. Then, when Apple changes the operating system, Adobe’s apps lose contact with their parts and stop working, including PDF-making from within XPress 6.5. MacFixit have more on the sorry state of Adobe apps. here .
King Quark
Lately, Quark Inc, one-time arrogant and undisputed king of DTP, have been showing Adobe how to make OS X software. Their QuarkXPress 7 has clearly caught up with inDesign and in some areas swept past. A quick tweak and QuarkXPress 7.31 is Leopard compatible, which is a little different from Adobe’s promised upgrades in January next year.
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Their website, a section of which is above, shows the latest changes to XPress. Most notably in the spell-checking areas with what appears to be useful additions, if only they would work.
I ran some tests…
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The new, improved spell checker insists that the spacing around the word at the start of a quote is incorrect…
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that a word after a colon should start with a capital letter…
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that a number followed by an ’s’ should be replaced by just the letter s…
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and what about ignoring words with numbers?
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