Being a designer and creative person, I am constantly begging for the most up-to-date programs, operating systems and computers out there. There is new technology, new products and new features constantly coming to light. There are seminars to explore your options and emails with teasers begging to be bought. I explode with possibilities running through my head of what I will do with all of these “new” features when I finally can get my hands on them…
The day comes when a bright new shiny “X” box shows up on my desk—oh the possibilities. Mac OS X Leopard… and what do I do you ask?… install it right away, of course! I think I should have gotten a clue from how long it took to install… my shiny new box has been nothing but a pain to my hard drive and ultimately my job ever since. Don’t get me wrong, the new dock with reflection technology on my desktop is pretty, the finder scrolling through files and images is near genius, and don’t forget about the Mac Apple stickers that come in the box, can’t live with out them (BTW-that’s sarcasm) but seriously I have had nothing but problems since the ‘big install’. I recommend waiting to upgrade your operating system until you are ready to upgrade to the most current Adobe programs. So if you haven’t ordered Adobe Creative Suite CS3 yet, don’t install Leopard.
What I detest is an operating system that forces you to upgrade your software for it to function correctly. Of course I want the newest software, but really, let’s join the real world… I don’t get everything that I want when I want it and here at my office, new software is client driven. When the clients start upgrading, so do we.
Since I don’t yet have CS3, I can’t guarantee that everything is going to be ‘just peachy’ if you already have it, but I think that most of the problems will drop out of the picture with the new software and OS combination. What I am experiencing right now is problems with font handling programs, serious program crashing cycles with Indesign CS2 where I can’t even close the document that I was working on and weird duplication when double clicking a Quark 6 file to open it. Then once I get the file open, I can only save it once and then I get an error message when I want to save it again. Instead, I have to use the save as option and replace the file. When I use QuarkXPress 7, the problem is eliminated, but not all of our clients use Quark 7 yet. Oh to praise the day that our clients upgrade and the double click duplication is extinct. Here’s to wishing!!
Let’s be real, I like new features. I think all designers like new features, they make their job easier and opens possibilities of different ways of thinking. We like that. So when I see these kind of glitches and they happen often with new programs and operating systems and their respective ‘bugs’, I get bummed. I don’t want to become jaded by bugs, crashes and fix-it patches. Please, just make it work so I can be creative and do my job. What does a girl have to do to get a program or operating system that ultimately works the first time that it’s installed? I guess keep dreaming!
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